Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech
Records of WUVT
WUVT (Radio station: Blacksburg, Va.)
RG.31.17.04
4.7 Cubic Feet
4 boxes, 1 oversize folder
1950-2008
This collection contains the records of WUVT-FM, Virginia Tech's student-run radio station, including administrative records, newspaper clippings, photographs, and scrapbooks.
The materials in this collection are in English.
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The collection is open for research.
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Preferred Citation
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [item], [box], [folder], Records of WUVT, 1950-2008, RG 31/17/4, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.
Source of Acquisition
The Records of WUVT were transferred to Special Collections and University Archives in 2017. Additional materials were purchased by Special Collections and University Archives in 2021.
Processing Information
The processing, arrangement, and description of the Records of WUVT commenced in September 2022 and completed in September 2022.
Administrative History
Students began illegal radio broadcasting in September 1947 on an AM frequency. The next spring, on April 1, 1948, WUVT officially began broadcasting on an AM frequency as a Virginia Polytechnic Institute student organization, stationed in a tower in the War Memorial Gym. In 1951, a fire destroyed the tower and the WUVT equipment. The station moved to Squires Student Center, and in the next year it began broadcasting 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. In 1969, WUVT-FM began operating an FM frequency at 350 watts in mono, expanding to 2500 watts by 1981. Today, the station broadcasts at 90.7 MHz on the FM band from a tower atop Price Mountain. WUVT-FM, the Bugle yearbook, Collegiate Times newspaper, Silhouette literary magazine, and VTTV Channel 33 television station are all owned and operated by The Educational Media Company at Virginia Tech (EMCVT), an independent nonprofit corporation founded in 1997 to take over the work of the Student Media Board.
Scope and Content
This collection contains the records of WUVT including administrative records, newspaper clippings, photographs, and scrapbooks. Also included in this collection are advertisement and promotional materials, engineering logs, equipment manuals, and information about playlists and The Woove, WUVT's student-run art and literary publication. This collection contains materials from 1950 to 2008. See the Arrangement note for additional information on the collection.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged in three series.
- Series I: Administrative Records contains the administrative records of WUVT. It has five subseries: Playlists, Eningeering Logs, Equipment Manuals, Advertisements and Promotional Materials, and The Woove.
- Subseries I: Playlists contains information about the music and playlists that WUVT played during broadcasts between 1970 and 2001.
- Subseries II: Engineering Logs contains some of the engineering logs and notebooks for the broadcasting systems between 1962 and 1982.
- Subseries III: Equiptment Manuals contains directional manuals for the equipment that was used by WUVT between 1958 and 1999.
- Subseries IV: Advertisements and Promotional Materials contains WUVT branded merchandise that was used for advertisements. Also included in this subseries are five WUVT t-shirts.
- Subseries V: The Woove contains copies of The Woove and information about the magazine from 1997 to 2004. The Woove is a quarterly art and literary publication put out by WUVT.
- Series II: Newspaper Clippings
- Series III: Photographs and Scrapbooks
Rights Statement for Archival Description
The guide to the Records of WUVT by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/).
University Archives
University History
Series I: Administrative RecordsSubseries I: PlaylistsPlaylist Information1970-197111Playlist Information1971-197212Playlist Information1972-197913Playlist Information198014Playlist Information198115Playlist Information198216Playlist Information1983-198417Playlist Information1993-199418Playlist Information1969-198519WUVT-FM Music Logs1997-2001120Program Guides1997-2002221WUVT Music Information1979-1998326Subseries II: Engineering LogsWUVT XMTR Log1962110WUVT XMTR Log1964-1965111WUVT Engineering Notebook1990112Chief Engineer's Log1993113Engineering Logs1997-1998114-15Equipment Test Records1977-1988116Equipment Proof of Performance Test1975123Equipment Proof of Performance Test1976124Equipment Proof of Performance Test
1980125Equipment Proof of Performance Test1981126Equipment Proof of Performance Test1982127Equipment Proof of Performance Test1984128Equipment Proof of Performance Test1986129Old Engineering Data1969-1974223Engineering Statement1988324WUVT Engineering1982, undated328Subseries III: Equipment ManualsTexar Audio Prism Users' Manualundated117Broadcast Electronics Instruction Manualundated118350 Series Recorder Equipment Manual1958119NACB Station Handbook1993121Production Room Policies1999, undated122Broadcast Operator Handbook1976130IBS Station Executive Handbookundated323Subseries IV: Advertisements and Promotional MaterialsWUVT Advertisements1997-1998131WUVT Bumper Stickerundated132WUVT Magnets 2008133WUVT Brochureundated134WUVT Newspaper Advertisementundated135WUVT Brings you the Worldundated136WUVT Advertisements1996-2008137WUVT Dorm Flyers1989-1990138WUVT Event Flyers1982-1998139WUVT Quarterly Publications1982-1998140-41WUVT Buttonundated142Advertisement CDsundated211White WUVT T-Shirtundated4Black WUVT T-Shirtundated4WUVT Graphic T-Shirtundated4"In your ears for fifty years" T-Shirt19984White WUVT Graphic T-Shirtundated4Red WUVT T-Shirtundated4WUVT Advertisement Floppy Diskundated325WUVT Handouts1996-2008327Subseries V: The WooveWoove Magazine1997143Woove Magazine2000144-45Woove Magazine2001146Woove Magazine2004147Off Target Scrapsundated21Woove Advertisementundated22Woove Submissionsundated23Woove Advertising Contracts2000-200224Woove Magazine Proof200125Woove Programs1995-199726WUVT 45th Anniversaryundated27WUVT 50th Anniversary199828Staffhead Applications1997-199829Community Relations1997-1998210WUVT History1950-2002212-13Quarterly Ownership Reports1977-1985214Quarterly Ownership Reports1986-1999215Fax Cover Sheets1999216Correspondence from Other Stations 1981-1996217-19Logo Designsundated220FCC Forms1972-1976222IBS Membership Certificates1970-2004224Publications from Other Stations1994-1999225-27WUVT News Programsundated228FM Operator Licenses1981-1986229Lee Hall Accessundated230Station Facilities Contracts1988-1989329WUVT Interdepartmental Correspondence1979-2005330Series II: Newspaper ClippingsCollegiate Times198631Woove Newspaper201232Collegiate Times200133Stay Free Newspaper1994-199534-5WUVT Newspaper Clippings1946-199736-8Collegiate Times 2002-11-1939Collegiate Times1998-03-31310-11Woove Newspaper2010312Series III: Photographs and ScrapbooksWUVT History Scrapbook2001313WUVT Photographic History1961-1982, undated314-1560 Years of Radio Scrapbook2008316-18WUVT Scrapbookca. 1980s-2000s319-21New Antenna Photographsundated322WUVT Photographs2004, undated1331