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In just a few weeks, WBOR will close an almost 30 year chapter in its history. Since moving from Moulton Union in 1995, countless DJs have called the Dudley Coe basement home, but with the impending demolition of the …
What do Roger Waters, Steel Pulse and Cake have in common? Listeners tuning into WBOR this week learned that the answer is President Safa Zaki.
Zaki answered questions live on WBOR during the station’s “President’s Hour” for the first time …
Slade Moore sits on a faux-velvet armchair in WBOR, proudly sporting an official station t-shirt emblazoned with a vibrating cell tower and the phrase “300 watts o’ PURE POWER!”
The Brunswick area writer and filmmaker has been a DJ at …
The red neon of the ON AIR sign and the shine of the mysterious traffic light in Dudley Coe mark WBOR, the graffitied hideaway where Bowdoin and the larger Brunswick community intermingle through music and radio waves.
The student-led radio …
Noisy New York rock group Been Stellar made its campus debut last Friday, playing music from its short but impressive catalog for a packed crowd in the amphitheater outside of Studzinski Recital Hall and David Saul Smith Union.
The concert, …
Last Thursday, Jack Magee’s Pub bursted with flashing lights, dancing students and the pulsating sound of live DJ sets. Dubbed the Boiler Room, WBOR modeled the event after the original Boiler Room, which started with a single live stream in …
Last Tuesday, Bowdoin’s student-run radio station, WBOR, reached a major milestone: 30,000 days—just over 82 years—on the air. Although much has changed in the decades since its inception, love for radio on campus remains strong with around 200 student DJs …
Last fall, WBOR station manager Mason Daugherty ’25 stumbled upon a number of old magazines—or more specifically, zines, a more counterculture, grassroots type of publication reserved for freer, more unfiltered media that might not be published elsewhere. Daugherty’s discovery spurred …
This evening, on the steps of Baxter House, indie rock band Vundabar will headline the WBOR Fall Concert alongside opener Gemma Laurence. Laurence’s performance is scheduled to begin at 7:30 p.m., followed by Vundabar at 8:45 p.m.
Boston-based Vundabar consists …
Bowdoin alumnus Dr. Bob Lochte ’72 recently made a donation of roughly $13,000 to WBOR, which the station will use to update its equipment and heighten its production value. Lochte himself was involved with WBOR during his time at Bowdoin, …
