JHU on Air:
I had a brief, unremarkable career in college as a DJ on WHSR, Hopkins Student Radio. I hosted two shows, one called “The Grand Illusion” which was all 80’s pop and another with my friend Jeremy called “Access All Areas” where I would play bad 70s arena schlock and he would play Wierd Al B-Sides. It lasted one semester and the station only reached to the buildings on campus. Often we were locked out of the station because the student monitor didn’t show up to let us in. Our show was Friday night, 10-12.
So I was pretty happy to hear than Hopkins Radio had been put out of its mercy in 2000 and reborn this year as hopkinsradio.com, streaming live over the Internet. The shows seem more diverse then in my day (it was the early 90s and disgruntled “alternative” was everywhere) and I only hope that online broadcasting has eliminated some of the silly hurdles we had back then.
I’m going to listen and see.