Calling all alumni!

Visit the WMUL Alumni Web Site and share your memories of WMUL.

We want your best work!

To celebrate our 45th year of broadcasting excellence this November, we are planning to air elements from our first days to our present days. However, we have recently come to the sad realization that our archives are incomplete.

We have some audio elements from 1985 to the present, but we know of only one element from 1961-1985: our very first sign-on. Obviously, our biggest need at this point is audio from 1961-1985, a.k.a. the pre-Dr. Bailey era. However, we would be happy to receive audio from any year. We will send back all audio that we receive as a result of this effort.

You can send your work to us in one of two ways:

2. By U.S. mail to this adddress:

WMUL-FM
Attn: 45 Years
Marshall University
One John Marshall Drive
Huntington, WV 25755

Once upon a time WMUL bragged, laughingly, that it broadcast over one square mile of downtown Huntington! Times have changed -- the station is one of the most prestigious college radio stations in the country. Alumni should be proud of these accomplishments. Please take the time to see what all this web site has to offer, a true blast to the past, and on to the future! -- MUAA Alumni Editor

The staff at WMUL-FM have won 693 national awards since faculty manager Dr. Charles Bailey began tracking the awards totals in 1985. WMUL-FM staff members set a new station record in the 2005 school year with 77 awards.

The record-breaking year was topped off April 22, 2006, at the West Virginia Associated Press Broadcasters Association's (WVAPBA) 2005 awards ceremony at Pipestem Resort State Park. While most of WMUL-FM's awards are in competition against other college radio stations, the WVAPBA awards are versus all the commercial and non-commercial radio stations in West Virginia. WMUL-FM took home 7 first place and 7 honorable mention awards from the 2005 WVAPBA

Most recently, the students received two first-place awards and four finalist awards at the 85th Annual National College Media Convention/2006 Collegiate Broadcasters Inc. (CBI) National Student Radio Production Awards Ceremony on Oct. 27 in the Rose Garden Room at the Adam’s Mark Hotel in St. Louis.

Dr. Chuck G. Bailey, professor of electronic media management in the W. Page Pitt School of Journalism and Mass Communications and faculty manager of WMUL-FM, said the students competed with broadcasting students from colleges and universities throughout the United States.

The contest, in its fifth year, is sponsored by CBI, which administers the contest in cooperation with College Media Advisers Inc. (CMA), the nation’s oldest and largest college media organization.

“It is an honor to win two out of the 12 first-place awards granted by these prestigious organizations,” Bailey said. “Our radio students have established a tradition at WMUL-FM of being able to successfully compete at the national, regional, or state level with other student-operated college radio stations.”

Columbia College was the only other institution to win two first-place awards from CBI.

“This performance is further evidence of the quality of the work performed by our talented broadcasting students,” Bailey said. “I am proud of our students, who continue to provide quality broadcast performances to tri-state listeners. They are excellent representatives for the W. Page Pitt School of Journalism and Mass Communications and Marshall University in competitions against nationally known colleges and universities.”

Marshall’s first-place award winning entries

Web site for live feed; and listen to the very first sign on

Wikipedia page about WMUL -- includes list of awards

Photos from 45th anniversary luncheon