WCRX is the student-run radio station of Columbia College Chicago. The station is dedicated to embodying professional, ethical, and legal standards while promoting a learning and leadership experience for students. WCRX provides broadcasting services to the Columbia College campus and surrounding communities in Cook County.
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Of the underground and emerging local scenes. You’re invited to the Tunnel to hang out with our artists as we listen to and discuss their latest tracks. We are the only college radio station to play Yabujin. Find us on WCRX 88.1 FM biweekly on Fridays from 7-9 PM!
Join along for the ride as host Brianna O’Malley goes all throughout the greater Chicago area trying restaurants that have been deemed a Diner, Drive-in, or a Dive. Reviewing their episode of Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives, diving deep into research, and fieldwork (trying the food), ultimately letting you know if these places are still worthy of that triple D seal and a guaranteed ticket to Flavor Town.
WCRXFM Sessions @33 takes viewers and listeners on a sonic journey with emerging artists from Columbia College Chicago. This showcase, filmed primarily at the station’s studios at 33 Ida B. Wells Drive, gives artists an opportunity to utilize this performance to build upon their creative output and connect with an audience through a visual music set posted on WCRXFM'S YouTube page, in addition to being available via a podcast on Apple, Spotify, and Stitcher.
Chicago Traffic Broadcaster Jill Urchak switches lanes to host a weekly interview show from the south side. Listen Here
A podcast where two friends bring a new dog on the show every week and do some podcastin' Hosted by Anthony Pellegrino and Scott DiBenedetto. Listen Here
Car Con Carne is “The World’s Only Food Podcast Recorded in a Car.” Hosted by Chicago media veteran James VanOsdol, each episode finds James and a guest visiting a Chicago area restaurant, taking their food to go, and eating/doing an interview in the front seat of his Mazda 3. Listen Here
Welcome to your weekly update on current events as well as interviews with Chicago news correspondents, artists, activists and intellectuals. In the Loop is hosted by Louise Netz (@lounetz) and Yasmeen Sheikah (@yasmeen.sheikah) and airs on WCRX 88.1 Chicago every Friday at 3pm.
Host and B&E professor Jaime Black interviews Chicago’s creative class: musicians, industry, tech, nightlife, callege talent and more on Chicago’s first ever and longest-running music podcast network
