General Manager of WTBU Kyle Davi (COM ’18) opens the first show in the new studio after the last year’s fire Wednesday Oct. 4. Photo by Sarah Silbiger (COM ’18) for Boston University Photography

It’s been a long year and a half for student-run radio station WTBU, whose studios were destroyed by a three-alarm fire in March 2016. But the station persevered, with staff working out of a temporary space in the College of Communication basement, holding a successful fundraiser, and gathering design ideas for their new studio during a visit with Howard Stern (CGS’74, COM’76) in New York.

All of that work has now paid off. Earlier this month, the station broadcast live from its new state-of-the-art studio on the third floor of COM. The first song they chose to play? Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire.”

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