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HAPPY BIRTHDAY WRGW... WE ARE NOW 79 YEARS OLD!!!
LEARN ABOUT WRGW'S HISTORY!
When Howard Cole, Samuel Hall, and Albert Webster founded the organization known as "the Radio Club" on February 16, 1929, the tradition of student radio at GW began. By the mid 1940s, a radio station, CRBE, had formed from the Radio Club. By 1959, the station had been named WRGW, the name it holds to this day. The station made progress through the 1950s and 1960s and in 1968, the station was formally placed under the jurisdiction of the Speech and Drama Department where it maintained a status quo until 1983.
In the years 1983 and 1984 WRGW struggled with the department over the allocation of funds. Specifically, the department felt that the funds for the station were theirs to reclaim and shut the station down. In 1985, a few motivated students led the effort to re-instate the station as a student-operated organization. In the spring of 1986, WRGW was given limited permission to broadcast in the Marvin Center.