
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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