college radio

American  

noun

1. radio broadcasting from stations affiliated with a college or university, often at a frequency below 92 MHz FM.

2. the usually eclectic or unconventional programming featured by such stations.

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Example Sentences

If you’re a Gen Xer who immersed yourself in punk rock or listened to college radio, The Waterboys will be a familiar name, if they don’t make your heart sing with fond nostalgia.

From Salon

There, he befriended John Lennon and Yoko Ono, while coordinating interviews with college radio stations for Ono’s latest album, “Approximately Infinite Universe.”

From Los Angeles Times

You also might have heard them on the radio if you lived within the transmission towers of a college radio station.

From Salon

Vacillating between songs that revive the yelpy, big build, bigger hook indie-rock of the late ‘00s and various tries at writing the next “Harborcoat,” Ohio’s False Teeth have created catnip for former college radio DJs, mp3 bloggers and mixtape makers alike.

From Salon

“We took this band from humble beginnings — underground clubs, college radio — and we put them onstage at Lincoln Center, which is a phenomenal career arc,” says Perry.

From Los Angeles Times