Crescent City Radio

Crescent City Radio
Crescent City Radio
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Broadcast area New Orleans, LA
Branding Crescent City Radio
Slogan Music for your mind.
Frequency Internet radio
First air date March 21, 1922 as WWL-AM
1959 as WVSU-AM
May 1966 as WOLF-AM
August 1968 - 1977, February 4, 1980 - 1996 as WLDC-AM
2008 as Crescent City Radio
Format Freeform Campus Radio
Language

English

Spanish
Callsign meaning Crescent City (Nickname of the City of New Orleans)
Former callsigns WWL-AM (1922)
WVSU-AM (1959-1966)
WOLF-AM (1966-1968)
WLDC-AM (1969-1977,1980 -1996)
Former frequencies 640 kHz
Owner Crescent City Radio
Webcast Listen Live
Website Crescent City Radio.com

Crescent City Radio is an internet radio station based in New Orleans, Louisiana serving Metropolitan New Orleans and southern Mississippi as well as all of the United States and the world through its internet presence as a Freeform radio station with a diverse offering of locally produced entertainment, music and talk programs ranging from listener-requested music, local music talent and airing radio formats such as Urban Contemporary, Mainstream Urban, Adult Contemporary, Classical Music, Swamp Pop, Gospel, and Latin Top 40 Pop. The station airs a variety of genres on rotation every hour, 24 hours a day. The station is an independently chartered organization at Loyola University New Orleans.

Contents

History

Loyola Opertated Stations

WWL-AM

The station has its origins with WWL-AM by first broadcasting on 833 kHz in 1922 from Marquette Hall on Loyola University New Orleans’s main campus. The station then changed frequencies to 1070 kHz in 1924, 1090 kHz in 1925, 1220 kHz in 1927, and then at 850 kHz in 1929 when a 5,000 watt transmitter was installed in Bobet Hall. The station became affiliated with the CBS Radio Network on November 1, 1935. In 1937, the station increased its transmission power to 50,000 watts. The station settled at 870 kHz in 1946. At this time, WWL-AM broadcasted from the Roosevelt Hotel in downtown New Orleans.

WWL-TV

On September 7, 1957, Loyola University New Orleans establishes WWL-TV, the fourth oldest television station in New Orleans, as the area’s CBS affiliate.

WWL-FM

By 1960, the first WWL-FM by the university at 101.9 MHz began broadcasting a Beautiful Music radio format until the early 1970s from a transmitter in northern Kenner, LA close to the shores of Lake Ponchatrain. WWL-FM would switch to a Top 40 radio format but revert back to Beautiful Music by May 1976. On December 26, 1980, WWL-FM became WAJY JOY 102 and then became KLMG Magic 102, both airing an Adult Contemporary radio format. By 1995, KLMG now owned by Entercom Communications, would move back to 101.9 MHz and rebrand itself as Magic 101.9.

WWL-FM currently also owned by Entercom Communications would return to the airwaves at 105.3 MHz on April 2006 simulcasting WWL-AM’s signal after previously doing so on August 29, 2005 when then WKZN’s transmitter was damaged because of Hurricane Katrina. Shortly after the storm, the station switched to WKBU as Bayou 105.3 airing a Classic rock radio format. In October 2005, both WKBU and WTKL Kool 95.7 would swap frequencies. WKBU would change from transmitting from Kenner, LA to New Orleans and 105.3 MHz would become WTKL Kool 105.3. Then in April 2006, WTKL was moved to an Internet webcast and WWL-FM would return to the airwaves on 105.3 MHz simulcasting WWL-AM’s signal in an effort to increase listenership within office buildings or other places where AM broadcasting could not penetrate. Shortly after, The Delta a Blues radio format would begin to broadcast on 105.3 HD-2.

KATC-TV

During the 1970s, Loyola University New Orleans owned KATC-TV in Lafayette, Louisiana as the area’s ABC affiliate and WWL-TV’s sister station.

Loyola Student-Run Stations

WOLF-AM

At the end of the 1965-66 school year in 1966 under the university’s Department of Communications, WOLF-AM went on the air as Loyola’s student radio station on 640 kHz as an AM Carrier-current station transmitting from the basement underneath the Orleans Room’s kitchen to all of the university campus and Dominican College. The call letters stood for the university’s mascot, the Wolfpack.

WLDC-AM

At the start of the 1968-69 school year in 1968, WOLF-AM changed its call letters to WLDC-AM naming it after the Loyola Danna Student Center. The station goes off the air in 1977. On February 4, 1980, WLDC-AM comes back on the air. WLDC-AM aired a progressive radio format with news bulletins from ABC Radio Network’s American Contemporary Network service from the American Information Network along with cultural news bulletins produced by WLDC-AM’s news operation. In 1986, the university’s new Communications/Music Complex is dedicated and WLDC-AM and WLDC-TV move to its new studios on the 4th floor. The entire floor is equipped with several professional studios for the television station, editing rooms, a newsroom, control rooms and recording booths for WLDC-AM. In 1996, WLDC-AM still under the Department of Communications, goes off the air.

Crescent City Radio

In 2005, Loyola’s Music Industry Studies program presented a proposal[1] to the University Communications Committee to approve the creation of a college radio station at Loyola University New Orleans as an internet radio station. The following year, the approved proposal was given a final approval by university president, Rev. Kevin Wm. Wildes, S.J. and Crescent City Radio went online in Spring 2008 broadcasting from WLDC-AM’s former studios in the Communications/Music Complex. Although the station was approved by the School of Mass Communication, Crescent City Radio operates under the College of Music and Fine Arts faculty, making the station more oriented towards broadcasting music related radio formats. In contrast, when WLDC-AM was under the then Department of Communications, the station included broadcast journalism as original programming. Loyola Student Media, from the School of Mass Communication, supplies Crescent City Radio with news content. Crescent City Radio runs as a commercial radio station that functions independently as a chartered organization that allows each program to receive commercial sponsorship and air publicity.

News Operation

In agreement with Loyola Student Media, radio newscasts from The Maroon, Loyola University New Orleans’s weekly newspaper preempted several times a day with the university’s latest news. The recordings were updated weekly and were available as podcasts on The Maroon Online. The recordings were produced by the webmaster at The Maroon. Since May 2010, The Maroon has stopped recording radio broadcasts. The Maroon has editorial independence from the university and station.[2]

Television Operations

Loyola Operated

WWL-TV

Before 1989, when WWL-AM was owned by Loyola University New Orleans, the university operated WWL-TV Channel 4 beginning on September 7, 1957 from the current Rampart Street studios, previously a 7-Up bottling plant in the French Quarter. After 1989, channel 4 was run by Rampart Broadcasting until it was sold to Belo Corp in 1994.

KATC-TV

During the 1970s, KATC-TV, Channel 3 in Lafayette, Louisiana was owned by Loyola University New Orleans and was WWL-TV’s sister station. Previously, the station was owned by the Acadian Television Company since the station first launced on September 19, 1962. In 1984, the university sold the station to Merrill Lynch. Channel 3 was then sold in 1998 to Cordillera Communications, the television unit of the Evening Post Publishing Company.

Student-Run

WLDC-TV

Television studios from former closed-circuit television station WLDC-TV that were part of the School of Mass Communication [3] are on the forth floor of the university’s Communications/Music Complex, Crescent City Radio’s same location, which before WLDC-AM’s closure in 1996 were also part of the School of Mass Communication. Before, WLDC-TV broadcasted from its studios in the basement of the Danna Student Center beneath the Orleans Room’s kitchen, hence the station’s call letters are named after "Loyola Danna Center". Broadcasting began in 1968. Like The Maroon, WLDC-TV produced a weekly student-produced newscast that would air within the university on cable channel 2 and later on 8. WLDC-TV operated with several video editing rooms, master control rooms, a newsroom, a central control room and four television studios.

After 2006, most of the floor began to be used by the College of Music and Fine Arts except for the former newsroom and mutual usage of Studio A by the School of Mass Communication. The former central control room houses the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz. Since 2009, the School of Mass Communication under a new director, planned with the College of Social Sciences of Loyola University New Orleans to establish a student-run digital video operation within the television studios. This is the department’s attempt under a new director to use the university’s idle television studios to create a teaching platform for video journalism while avoiding to re-establish broadcast journalism, which would go against the university’s Pathways restructuring program and its numerous lawsuits against the university.[4] Most of Studio A was equipped with new studio lights in 2010 and is used as a lecture and event hall. Studio B is used for band practice. Studio C is used by the College of Music and Fine Arts to film Loyola Music News and Loyola Music News en Español and the university uses the studio to film video content for the university website. Studio D is used by Vital Sounds Recording Studio as part of their recording studios.

Pathways Eliminations

WLDC-TV and the broadcasting sequence from the School of Mass Communication were eliminated along with the broadcasting faculty during the Pathways program after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 when the university cut funding for many programs and fired faculty, many before their tenure due to the university’s assumption that enrollment would go down after Hurricane Katrina which displaced students for half an academic year.[5] Many former faculty sued the university.[6] In June 2011, the American Association of University Professors officially removed the university from its censure list[7] after a soliciation from the university’s chapter in May 2011.[8]

LSCN Channel 8

In Fall 2006,[9] campus-wide (except Broadway Campus) television channel LSCN Channel 8, operated by the Office of Residential Life replaced WLDC-TV as a 24 hour movie channel, airing pre-selected movies and educational material which broadcast from the Danna Student Center basement. The same package of movies would air for an entire month and replaced the following month with a new line-up of movies. It was typical for the Office of Residential Life to send out polls via e-mail to all its residents in all dormitories (except Cabra Hall) asking which movies should air the following month. LSCN Channel 8 went dark in 2010 with no official word on its return.

Programming

Programming Schedule

Programs are produced at Crescent City Radio and most are broadcast live. Music rotations with different genres air every hour between shows. Some programs may change air day and time every four months (three times) in a year. Talent and program directors do not need to be affiliated with Loyola University New Orleans and are free to decide the content of their programming.[10] Primetime during the week consists mostly of urban music programs, which also air commentary and discussions on cultural topics that are relevant to the audience. Most programming hours are aired in English with some programming only in Spanish.

Musical Influences

As a Freeform radio station, Crescent City Radio airs programs that range from Urban radio formats like Urban Contemporary, Mainstream Urban, and Gospel, varying Adult Contemporary radio formats, several New Orleans Music genres, and specific Louisiana roots music and dance southern region genres like Swamp Pop. Other radio formats that air on programs include, Latin Top 40 Pop, Rock en Español, K-Pop, and J-Pop. Music rotations air Classical, Reggae, and unsolicited music submissions from artists.[11] The station routinely researches through music sources and services for artists that the station staff believes may need greater exposure.

Station Image

Crescent City Radio identifies itself with the Crescent City of New Orleans, hence the stationˈs name. Stingers aired on the station include, "Youˈre rolling down the river with Crescent City Radio dot com", which is related to the Mississippi River, which runs through New Orleans, "Get your fill of musical gumbo on Crescent City Radio dot com" relates to Louisianaˈs typical stew of gumbo, and another stinger aired is, "Youˈre listening to Crescent City Radio, its music for your mind", which includes the stationˈs motto. In Spanish, the stationˈs stinger is "Estas escuchando Crescent City Radio, es música para tus oídos". The stationˈs motto, "Music for your mind" could possibly relate to the stationˈs Freeform format.

Live Performance

With a bi-directional audio link with the nearby recording studio facilities, the station is able to feature high quality live performances. Musical acts frequently perform live, on the air and are recorded by station and university staff by using a Digital Audio Workstation software, a multi-channel recording format. Recordings are provided to the artists for use as demo recordings or for archival purposes. The radio station has a public lounge area overlooking St. Charles Avenue where visitors may see on-air talent live inside the studio through a soundproof glass barrier. Speakers were once in the lounge which allowed visitors to experience the station as it aired live worldwide. The speakers were removed under the decision by the station ˈs faculty advisor.

Personnel

Although, the faculty advisor must be affiliated with the university as a faculty member, Crescent City Radio allows all positions to be held by members of the general public.

Competitors

References

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