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_higglety t1_ittv286 wrote

Once upon a time I lived in the Albany NY area and I used to love listening to 88.3 (the SAINT!!!) WVCR. They had a long running polka show followed by an equally long running Irish music show, and it was really fun to hear the hosts take requests from frequent callers and chat like they were old friends. Plus just all kinds of other stuff- for a while one student host was running an “anime music hour”, and at certain times at night the whole station (music, host, ads and all) switched over to Spanish and we got various Spanish pop. And once a week- I think it was Saturday nights?- they aired old radio dramas. It made my commute fun because I worked varied hours so there was always something different to listen to. And even though the station is owned and run by a Catholic college, it didn’t go too heavy on the Jesus music. I think I remember them airing religious programming early on Sunday, but nothing really beyond that. They didn’t even go to hard on the Christmas music around that time of year. I remember every other station in the area switched over to 24/7 Christmas music in like, October, but they stuck to their regular programming well into December, which I very much appreciated!

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