For those that aren’t familiar with Bcapirigi’s mention of Sundays, on Sunday, WBRU plays hip-hop all day instead of alternative rock (and not the hip-hop that usually gets onto alternative stations like Beastie Boys (alternative hip hop), Dizzee Rascal (British grime and garage) and MC Lars (nerdcore) but actual hip-hop that would be played on a hip-hop formatted station). It confuses the hell out of Mediabase and Radio & Records (especially if you add in the fact that from 2AM to 6AM every weekday morning, WBRU plays jazz music).

The signal’s technically owned by the Wheeler School, which is the private high school down the street from Brown, but the signal itself is in Seekonk, a few towns over. Brown never invests much into BSR because they also own BRU, which traditionally has made them a lot more money (because it’s a commercial station with a commercial signal that Brown sort of weaseled itself into tax exemption for years and years.)

Also, BRU kinda blows (Sundays excluded.) And though BSR’s only on the air about ten hours a day, it’s online for 24.

(And I have a show on BSR, so obviously I’m partial.)

This is actually a nice selection (except for the Breaking Woodie. Really no Los Campesinos! love?).

Also it’s hilarious that WBSR (which shares its call letters with an adult contemporary AM station in Florida) is up for best college radio station seeing as it is unlicensed by the FCC, and is dwarfed in popularity and broadcasting power (it broadcasts so low, that there are parts of the Brown University campus that can’t pick it up its signal) by its big brother WBRU – located on the same campus and owned by Brown Univeristy and is an award winning commercial Modern Rock formatted station (techically it is still a college radio station, albiet one of the few that actually commands a large listening audience). But I guess they wanted to pick a Rhode Island and/or New England college station (and they passed up on WRIU – URI’s station, which has a pretty strong signal and is a nice listen).