December 1, 1967
Dickinsonian Meets WDCV Next Week On Gridiron in 195th Annual Classic

The staff of The Dickinsonian meets the staff of radio WDCV on the football field next Friday at 3:30 pm on the Benjamin Rush Campus in the 195th annual appearance since this hotly contested rivalry began in 1711.

November 22, 1963
Crompton Advises Radio Technicians In College Hookup

Mr. Richard Crompton, an electrican engineer from Malvern, said Bob Hindle, treasurer of the Student Senate, met last Saturday with the technical staff of WDCV, Dickinson’s radio station, to determine the economic feasibility of purchasing professional transmitters for the college station.

November 19, 2000
Catch The Freq 

An ad for WDCV. Possibly in The Square?

November 16, 1962
WDCV Begins Broadcasting

Dickinson’s first radio station, WDCV, will be in operation Sunday, Nov. 18, at 8 p.m.

Ok, so even though this article says WDCV’s first date to broadcast will be November 18th 1962…..it actually wasn’t.  And truthfully, we can’t pinpoint the actual day either.  We have been able to isolate a window of time though.  The next Dickinsonian article the references the inaugural broadcast is from December 14th 1962 but it never says definitively when it happened.  We think it’s around December 1st or so but all of the hours digging in the college archives still hasn’t allowed us to pinpoint an exact date.  So that just means we will celebrate now through the end of the semester.  It’s really not much of a change anyway since we have really been celebrating all.year.long.

November 14, 1969
WDCV Absolved

…three members of the WDCV radio station along with three students who had made the accusations, met with the President and Treasurer of the Senate. Accusations were made and the radio station was given the opportunity to answer to the charges. At the end of the meeting, it was realized by all parties that the charges made against the radio station were unsubstantiated.

…The Finance Committee will soon recommend the establishment of procedures to be followed when a student wishes to bring formal procedures against an organization funded by the Student Senate.

October 23rd 1964
WDCV To Begin Broadcasting With Classical To Jazz Music 

If you are a WDCV alum we would love to hear more about you and your time at WDCV. Can you fill out this quick survey ? It would be much appreciated!

October 24th 1975
WDCV to expand broadcast schedule

WDCV has been called “alternative radio” since it plays various types of music, with programs designed to please Dickinson listeners, as opposed to the Nashville, rock or the “dentist-office type” music hear on most other local FM stations.

If you are a WDCV alum we would love to hear more about you and your time at WDCV. Can you fill out this quick survey ? It would be much appreciated!

September 16th, 1982
WDCV Increases wattage, offers change in program

WDCV increased wattage from 10 to 450 watts and called itself “Alternative 88” at the time.

If you are a WDCV alum we would love to hear more about you and your time at WDCV. Can you fill out this quick survey ? It would be much appreciated!  

July 22, 1976
Marcello at Democratic Convention 

Connections to WDCV made it possible for one student, Doug Marcello, to attend the 1976 Democratic convention with press credentials.  He enjoyed a speech by a campaigning President Carter and watched as Dan Rather signed autographs.

If you are a WDCV alum we would love to hear more about you and your time at WDCV. Can you fill out this quick survey ? It would be much appreciated! 

May 10, 1974

The Dickinsonian details the station’s attempts at fixing the faulty transmitter.

If you are a WDCV alum we would love to hear more about you and your time at WDCV. Can you fill out this quick survey ? It would be much appreciated! 

April 21, 2010 

WDCV Brings Rockers to Campus The You Know Whos, The Fugitive Souls and Drink Up Buttercup

“The band played with incredible energy, bounced all over the stage, utilized a multitude of strange and improvisational instruments, played each other’s instruments and put on a hell of a show. It looked like they were having so much fun together that one could imagine their performance being the same in an empty basement as in front of a sell-out crowd. Overall: caustic and sweet singing. And great fun.”

If you are a WDCV alum we would love to hear more about you and your time at WDCV. Can you fill out this quick survey ? It would be much appreciated! 

April 17th 1959
Letter to Faculty and Staff of Dickinson College

 Letter sent to the faculty informing them that the students are planning on creating new radio station on campus.  

If you are a WDCV alum we would love to hear more about you and your time at WDCV. Can you fill out this quick survey ? It would be much appreciated!  

Isn’t this fantastic?  It’s the bulletin board our execs put together in the studio so all the DJs know about our super, spectacular 50th Birthday plans.  I was so excited to see it I kinda, sorta, maybe hugged it. Yeah, I did.

If you are a WDCV alum we would love to hear more about you and your time at WDCV. Can you fill out this quick survey ? It would be much appreciated! 

April 2nd 2004
New Station Name for WDCV 

We changed from “The Frequency” back to our original name “The Dickinson College Voice”.  Technically, we now say “The Voice of Dickinson College” but who is paying attention really?

If you are a WDCV alum we would love to hear more about you and your time at WDCV. Can you fill out this quick survey ? It would be much appreciated! 

1986 WDCV Music Playlist

Our playlists are now online thanks to advances in technology but this is how it used to be done!

If you are a WDCV alum we would love to hear more about you and your time at WDCV. Can you fill out this quick survey link? It would be much appreciated!