We are very excited to announce that Daniel Lanois will be the featured keynote interview for this year’s Vinylthon event. Canadian-born Lanois, is is best known for producing albums for a wide variety of artists, including Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Peter Gabriel, Emmylou Harris, Willie Nelson, and Brandon Flowers. Lanois also collaborated with Brian Eno:…
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Over 60 college radio stations cue up for Vinylthon!
We are excited that over 60 college radio stations have registered to be a participant in our 2nd annual Vinylthon on April 22nd! Each station has committed to playing at least an hour of vinyl-only music – some are going for a full 24-hours! Coming very soon, our 2017 Vinlython Programming Guide. Stay tuned! Behold…
For those stations with the guts – here’s the glory!
We are delighted to announce that for the first time, those stations that go vinyl only for the full 24 hours on April 22nd for our 2nd Annual Vinylthon, will be presented with a very special award! The Golden Slipmat Award is an actual slipmat that will be sent to all stations that pull off…
New Record Set For CRD Registrations!
We were delighted to set a new record for college radio registrations in a single day when we opened up registration for College Radio Day 2017 on Friday. Over 40 stations registered in one day. We also took registrations in person at our table and thoroughly enjoyed getting to meet the faces behind the many…
Registration for Vinylthon 2017 is now open!
We are delighted to open FREE registration for college radio stations for our 2nd Annual VINYLTHON, to take place on Saturday, April 22 – also Record Store Day. Stations can help celebrate the unique medium of vinyl and college radio, by playing at least one hour of music from vinyl only. We encourage stations to…
Plans for 2017
And…we’re back! We hope everybody had a great break and a happy new year! We are excited to announce several things that are going to be happening for this spring semester 2017: The 2016 Spirit of College Radio Awards will be announced, starting on Monday, January 16. The 2017 Vinylthon will take place on Saturday,…
Vinylthon 2016 a huge success!
50 radio stations across the USA took part in the first ever college radio VINYLTHON, on Saturday, April 16. During the day long event, students, community volunteers, staff and faculty played music from vinyl records only. Four stations decided to do an entire 24 hours of vinyl-only music: KMNR 89.7 FM – Missouri University of…
The Vinylthon is coming!
On Saturday, April 16, 46 college radio stations from across the USA will participate in the first ever college radio Vinylthon! To see an updated list of participating stations please click here. To see an updated Vinylthon 2016 College Radio Programming Guide, please click here. We hope that you will tune in to a participating…
First College Radio Vinylthon Unites College Radio Stations on Record Store Day
Forty campus stations across the country will come together for the first ever college radio Vinylthon on Saturday, April 16, also Record Store Day. This inaugural Vinylthon, being organized by the people behind the national College Radio Day event every Fall, will see college radio stations broadcasting special programs entirely with music played from vinyl…
Announcing our first college radio VINYLTHON!
As you may know, College Radio Day unites hundreds of USA college radio stations every year (this year CRD will be November 4th – register here for free). Saturday, April 16, is Record Store Day, and who better to celebrate the importance of vinyl music than college radio! We therefore invite all college radio stations…