WKPS (90.7 FM , The LION 90.7fm ) is a college radio station owned by Penn State University in University Park, Pennsylvania . The station runs on a full-time, multi-format schedule featuring a wide variety of programming.
88-658: LION 90.7fm transmits to a potential audience of over 125,000 from its studio in the Hetzel Union Building (HUB)-Robeson Center. The station also has a live webcast , which is capable of streaming live to hundreds of listeners. WKPS is licensed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) with the primary goal being to serve the campus and local community and secondary goals being the training, education and instruction of students in broadcast radio and station management. The station
176-589: A major label . NOFX released fifteen studio albums, sixteen extended plays and a number of 7" singles over a career spanning more than four decades. The band rose to popularity with their fifth studio album Punk in Drublic (1994), which is their only release to receive a gold certification by the RIAA . Their fifteenth and final studio album, Double Album , was released on December 2, 2022. The group has sold over eight million records worldwide, making them one of
264-425: A melodic hardcore band, rejecting critics' labeling of the band's style as pop-punk. The band cites its influences as Bad Religion , Rich Kids on LSD , D.I. , SNFU , Operation Ivy , Descendents , Circle Jerks , Dead Milkmen , Ramones , Sex Pistols , Adrenalin O.D. , Minor Threat , Germs , Suicidal Tendencies , Black Flag , Dead Kennedys , The Adolescents , Misfits , and Subhumans . In 2018,
352-430: A 21-minute Victoria's Secret fashion show featuring supermodel Tyra Banks aired exclusively on Broadcast.com . The webcast was promoted by a 30-second television spot during Super Bowl XXXIII and drew an estimated 1.5 million viewers. Broadcast.com servers were reportedly overwhelmed by the spike in traffic, locking out many potential viewers. Virtually all major broadcasters now have a webcast of their output, from
440-470: A compilation album titled The Longest EP , a compilation of selected songs from its extended plays from 1987 to 2009. It was released on August 17, 2010. On November 23, 2010, Fat Wreck Chords released NOFX / The Spits , a split EP with the Seattle , Washington , band The Spits . It contained two new songs from each band. In a January 2011 interview with The Daily Times, Fat Mike revealed that
528-550: A concert by Metallica on June 10, 1996, live from Slim's in San Francisco. In 1995, Benford E. Standley produced one of the first audio/video webcasts in history. On October 31, 1996, UK rock band Caduseus broadcast their one-hour concert from 11 pm to 12 midnight (UT) at Celtica in Machynlleth, Wales, UK – the first live streamed audio and simultaneous live streamed video multicast – around
616-463: A curricular-focused campus news segment. The LION 90.7fm still references this incident from time to time through audio imaging on the station. An article and partial transcript of the incident was published by a local independent newspaper, and complete audio of the incident continues to exist online. Student staffers had only begun to get settled, however, when in 2004, newly installed Vice President of Student Affairs Vicky Triponey cut all funding to
704-542: A feature of the fledgling World Wide Web . Later in 1996 an American college student and conceptual artist , Jenny Ringley , set up a web camera similar to the Trojan Room Coffee Pot's webcam in her dorm room. That webcam photographed her every few minutes while it broadcast those images live over the Internet upon a site called JenniCam . Ringley wanted to portray all aspects of her lifestyle and
792-500: A fiery and cynical social commentary, in 1999. The Decline , clocking in at 18:23, is the second-longest punk song ever recorded (behind Crass ' 20-minute song " Taking Sides "). NOFX released its eighth studio album, Pump Up the Valuum , in 2000. It was the band's final album released through Epitaph, as the band decided to sign to Fat Mike's own label, Fat Wreck Chords . In 2002, the band recorded BYO Split Series Volume III ,
880-593: A funeral is also a service provided by some funeral homes. Although it has been around since at least 2005, cheaper broadband access, the financial strain of travel, and deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan have all led to increased use of the technology. NOFX NOFX ( / ˌ n oʊ ɛ f ˈ ɛ k s / ) was an American punk rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1983. Bassist/lead vocalist Fat Mike , rhythm guitarist Eric Melvin and drummer Erik Sandin were original founding and longest-serving members of
968-575: A multitude of Internet-only "stations". Webcasting usually consists of providing non-interactive linear streams or events. Rights and licensing bodies offer specific "webcasting licenses" to those wishing to carry out Internet broadcasting using copyrighted material. Webcasting is used extensively in the commercial sector for investor relations presentations (such as annual general meetings), in e-learning (to transmit seminars ), and for related communications activities. However, webcasting does not bear much, if any, relationship to web conferencing , which
SECTION 10
#17327870876341056-479: A new NOFX album and a soundtrack to a "fetish film" called Rubber Bordello . In June 2011, NOFX began their Great White North Tour, which would have them traveling across Canada. The tour kicked off in St. John's, Newfoundland , on June 14. It was the first time the band had been to Newfoundland. Along with a self-titled 10" of 1980s hardcore punk cover songs, the band also planned to re-release their first recordings in
1144-437: A new NOFX album was in production, saying "There are some really good songs on Coaster , but after having written 300 songs, I feel lucky I came up with them. That's why there are songs on there about Iron Maiden and Tegan and Sara . I'm reaching, man. Sometimes I grab stuff just to grab stuff, and I'm going in a lot of different directions." In December 2011, Fat Mike revealed to Phoenix New Times that he has begun work on
1232-572: A new album, Coaster , on April 28, 2009. The band worked with the same co-producer, Bill Stevenson , who produced its previous album, Wolves in Wolves' Clothing . NOFX was also added to the lineup for the Warped Tour 2009 . They also toured Australia and New Zealand in late 2009 with Bad Religion . NOFX released a new extended play on November 24, 2009, titled Cokie the Clown . It
1320-401: A new song that they had never performed live before or even released, "We Did It Our Way", as their penultimate song in the show. Fat Mike described the tune as their "thank you" to fans and everyone onstage. Critics have labeled NOFX's style as primarily punk rock , melodic hardcore , skate punk , ska punk , and pop-punk . Fat Mike, in a 2021 Spin interview, identified NOFX as
1408-645: A seven-inch four-song vinyl (titled Hepatitis Bathtub ) and a bath towel was also released. In March 2018, NOFX released a new single "There's No 'Too Soon' if Time Is Relative", in tribute to physicist Stephen Hawking , who had died days earlier. The track had been recorded a month prior to its release. Several days later, they announced the first annual "Camp Punk in Drublic Festival" in Legend Valley in Thornville, Ohio. The three-day event
1496-451: A split album with Rancid , in which Rancid covered NOFX songs and NOFX covered Rancid songs. NOFX released its ninth studio album, The War on Errorism , in 2003, an album of political songs. It became the start of its anti- George W. Bush campaign. Fat Mike organized the website punkvoter.com, compiled two chart-topping Rock Against Bush albums, and started a Rock Against Bush U.S. tour. The song "Separation of Church and Skate" from
1584-415: A way of providing higher bandwidth Internet access to home computer users as well as enabling television-based Internet access, driving the development of smart television products. The earliest graphically oriented web broadcasts were not streaming video, but were in fact still frames which were photographed with a web camera every few minutes while they were being broadcast live over the Internet. One of
1672-404: A year, Erik "Smelly" Sandin left the band and was replaced by Scott Sellers, and later by Scott Aldahl. Dave Allen was in the band for about four months, until he died in a car accident. In 1986, the band released the extended play So What If We're on Mystic! . Dave Casillas joined the band on second guitar in 1987 and was featured on the extended play The P.M.R.C. Can Suck on This , attacking
1760-438: Is a media presentation distributed over the Internet using streaming media technology to distribute a single content source to many simultaneous listeners/viewers. A webcast may either be distributed live or on demand. Essentially, webcasting is " broadcasting " over the Internet. The largest "webcasters" include existing radio and TV stations, who " simulcast " their output through online TV or online radio streaming, as well as
1848-831: Is described on the press release as "their sloppiest, drunkest, funniest, best sounding recording ever ... and they even made sure not to play any songs off their 1995 live album I Heard They Suck Live ." NOFX launched a world tour in September 2007, which was the basis for a documentary, NOFX: Backstage Passport , which aired on Fuse TV about its worldwide tour. The show was entitled NOFX: Backstage Passport . In February 2009, NOFX reunited with former members Steve Kidwiler and Dave Casillas for its 25th-anniversary special performances. They played three sold-out shows, one in San Diego, one in Hollywood, and one in S.F. NOFX released
SECTION 20
#17327870876341936-570: Is designed for many-to-many interaction. The ability to webcast using cheap/accessible technology has allowed independent media to flourish. There are many notable independent shows that broadcast regularly online. Often produced by average citizens in their homes they cover many interests and topics. Webcasts relating to computers, technology , and news are particularly popular and many new shows are added regularly. Webcasting differs from podcasting in that webcasting refers to live streaming while podcasting simply refers to media files placed on
2024-596: Is run entirely by Penn State undergraduates, and maintains its tradition of public service by allowing student broadcasters from any academic major and community broadcasters local to the area. It also retains its programmatic independence by remaining unaffiliated with any academic college. WPSC, Penn State's original student station, emerged from the Senior Gift of the Class of 1912. Initially an experimental shortwave installation, it represented "the first licensed club in
2112-702: The BBC to CNN to Al Jazeera to UNTV in television to Radio China, Vatican Radio, United Nations Radio and the World Service in radio. On November 4, 1994, Stef van der Ziel distributed the first live video images over the web from the Simplon venue in Groningen. On November 7, 1994, WXYC , the college radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill became the first radio station in
2200-567: The PMRC 's campaign for music censorship. The original cover was an edited S&M photo; the cover for the re-released version was changed to a photo of Eric Melvin . Prior to the release of Liberal Animation , a compilation of 14 early NOFX songs was released on Mystic Records . The album was self-titled, and featured the songs from the NOFX and So What If We're on Mystic! extended plays, and only around 1,000 copies were pressed. The album's cover
2288-780: The American jam band Phish webcast one of their concerts for the first time. On October 22, 1998, the first Billy Graham Crusade was broadcast live to a worldwide audience from the Raymond James Stadium in Tampa Florida courtesy of Dale Ficken and the WebcastCenter in Pennsylvania. The live signal was broadcast via satellite to PA, then encoded and streamed via the BGEA website. On February 6, 1999,
2376-470: The Austin, Texas, venue, Emo's. In May 2010, NOFX posted a video online that showed Fat Mike urinating into a bottle of Patrón as was previously announced, but then switching the bottle before going on stage to a bottle not containing any urine. Months later in an interview, Mike stated that he had "always wanted to be banned from somewhere." On June 21, 2010, NOFX announced that they were going to release
2464-499: The College of Communications for broadcast media. The station offered opportunities that the previous student radio stations hadn't seen including, in 1999, the start of students broadcasting Penn State football, and in 2001, the start of internet web-streaming of the station. Incidentally, "WKPS" was the fictitious student radio station featured in the 1990 film Pump Up The Volume , starring Christian Slater . By 2000, students in
2552-452: The College wired its student news studio into the station's sound board without proper communication or permission, leading to an incident known locally as "The LION Riot". It was at this time that faculty members of the College of Communications entered the WKPS studios while students were broadcasting live, proceeding to reprimand student broadcasters on-air for a perceived failure to broadcast
2640-411: The Internet. The term "webcast" had previously been used to describe the distribution of Web or Internet content using conventional broadcast technologies such as those intended for digital video ( Digital Video Broadcasting ) and audio ( Digital Audio Broadcasting ), and in some cases even leveraging analogue broadcasting techniques traditionally used by Teletext services to deliver a limited "Best of
2728-574: The Penn State Alumni Association. The Alumni Interest Group had been founded in 2005 by then-faculty adviser Robert K. Zimmerman , but had become inactive after his death in 2007. Mike Gogel, a former President and General Manager of WKPS, became president of the Alumni Interest Group in 2009. During his two-year tenure the group created The Robert K. Zimmerman Endowment for Student Broadcasting at Penn State ,
WKPS - Misplaced Pages Continue
2816-488: The Penn State Community. In late 2005, student General Manager Brandon W. Peach assumed the responsibility for putting the station back on the right financial track. While the problems with the administration would continue to grow, the radio station has been able to procure aid from alternate sources and continue to provide an outlet for multi-format student radio. In 2006, the Alumni Interest Group renewed
2904-548: The Penn State community for the purpose of connecting students, alumni, professors, and friends passionate about creating and promoting a more robust cultural environment through media." Specifically, the Penn State Media Association re-imagined its role in order to "support a diversity of student media endeavors, and relatedly, to promote a holistic approach to supporting student media that recognizes
2992-650: The Punk in Drublic festival, Stone Brewing Co., pulled support from the festival as well as from NOFX's line of craft beer. NOFX and Me First and the Gimme Gimmes were subsequently removed from the festival's lineup. The band later apologized, stating, "What we said in Vegas was shitty and insensitive and we are all embarrassed by our remarks." In June 2018 the band stated that all of their U.S. concerts had been canceled and they had been "effectively banned" from playing in
3080-655: The United States in the summer of 2015 celebrating the 25th anniversary of Fat Wreck Chords . Supporting acts for this tour were Lagwagon , Me First and the Gimme Gimmes , Strung Out , Propagandhi , Swingin' Utters , Bracket , ToyGuitar, The Flatliners , Masked Intruder and Bad Cop/Bad Cop. Guitarist El Hefe said that NOFX was going to work on new music after the Fat Wreck Chords 25th anniversary tour. On their tour to Europe, NOFX stated their new album would be out in September 2016. On July 19, 2016,
3168-677: The University Park Allocations Committee, which replaced the SOBC, were not so inclined to give the station money. UPAC cut funding for The Lion 90.7FM by 80 percent during the 2000-2001 academic year, a decrease which nearly crippled the station. Student General Manager Mike Walsh secured funding from the office of Student Affairs, with its Vice President Bill Asbury allegedly promising to provide funding support for an additional five years. The exact terms of this verbal contract are contested—when Vicky Triponey became
3256-564: The Vice President of Student Affairs, the University claimed Asbury only promised three years. In order to secure more professional oversight for the station, LION 90.7fm attempted the following year to create a mutually beneficial partnership with Penn State's College of Communications. The University agreed to create such a relationship, and the office of Student Affairs and the College of Communications each offered to pay half of
3344-608: The WDFM signal and also produced and broadcast original content to its area residence halls. On the AM dial, there also existed WEHR, a radio station in Penn State's East Residence Halls ("EHR" stands for "East Halls Radio"). At one time, three of Penn State's five residence areas possessed their own stations. WEHR was a typical freeform radio station; its playlist depended on the deejay . Founded in 1972, WEHR originally broadcast from 10 Geary Hall, moving to 104 Johnston Commons sometime in
3432-542: The Web" selection of content to audiences. Overnight broadcasts of data via analogue television signals were claimed by WebTV representatives to be able to offer "a fresh gigabyte of data every day... while you sleep". Typically, webcasting referred to a form of datacasting involving higher bandwidth broadcast technologies delivering Web content, multimedia files in particular, and with any interactivity supported by lower bandwidth return channels such as dial-up Internet access over
3520-470: The air on Halloween on Tuesday, October 31, 1995. The first song ever played on its airwaves was "Please Play This Song on the Radio" by NOFX . WKPS was chartered as a student club under Penn State's Office of Student Affairs in order to avoid a fate similar to that of WDFM, which had been created as a subsidiary of the College of Communications. Though this move would prove problematic for the radio station in
3608-502: The album existed until he saw a copy of it "in a store." In the wake of the 1990s punk rock revival revolution (dominated by Green Day , The Offspring , Bad Religion and Rancid ), NOFX released their fifth studio album Punk in Drublic in July 1994. It is one of the band's most successful albums, peaking at number twelve on Billboard ' s Heatseekers chart, and obtaining gold status six years after its release. Although one of
WKPS - Misplaced Pages Continue
3696-590: The album was featured in the game Tony Hawk's Underground . In 2004, a previously unreleased demo version of their song "Concerns of a GOP Neo-Phyte" was contributed to the compilation album Take Action! Vol. 4 . In February 2005, the band launched the NOFX 7" of the Month Club , a subscription-based service, which saw the release of one new extended play almost monthly, from February 2005 to March 2006 (a total of 12 releases). The cover art for these extended plays
3784-452: The album's singles "Leave It Alone" got airplay on active rock radio stations, the most notable being KROQ , its music video never received airplay on MTV. Fat Mike has been quoted saying, "We made the 'Leave It Alone' video, and we decided not to send it to MTV. We just didn't want to be a part of that machine, of that 'punk wave. ' " Due to the success of Punk in Drublic , NOFX received many offers to sign with major record labels, but
3872-473: The band attracted significant controversy after statements by Fat Mike and rhythm guitarist Eric Melvin during a concert in Las Vegas on May 30, 2018. Referencing the 2017 Las Vegas shooting , Melvin stated "I guess you only get shot in Vegas if you're in a country band," and Mike replied with “You know, that [massacre] sucked, but least they were country fans and not punk rock fans." The lead sponsor of
3960-492: The band declined the offers. In 1995, the band released its first live album, I Heard They Suck Live!! . In the liner notes the band explicitly rejected the advances of major record labels and radio airplay, stating "We've been doing fine all these years without you so leave us alone!" Punk in Drublic is now considered a classic punk album by fans and critics alike. Punk in Drublic was followed by 1996's Heavy Petting Zoo , whose LP companion featured different cover art and
4048-650: The band released a video for "another new song that didn't make it on the new album" called "The Oddition". On January 12, 2021, NOFX announced that they would release their first studio album in nearly five years, Single Album , on February 26. On September 1, 2022, Fat Mike confirmed in a reply to a comment in an Instagram post that NOFX would be disbanding in 2023, the year of the band's 40th anniversary, and suggested that their final show may take place in their hometown of Los Angeles, California . On September 27, 2022, NOFX announced their next album, Double Album , would come out on December 2, 2022. They released
4136-401: The band shortly after the recording of Liberal Animation and was replaced by Steve Kidwiler. The band released its second studio album, S&M Airlines , through Epitaph in 1989. In 1991, NOFX released its third studio album, Ribbed . Shortly after the album was released, Steve Kidwiler left the band, and Aaron Abeyta (a.k.a. "El Hefe") joined the group. With Abeyta, the band recorded
4224-492: The band's thirteenth studio album, First Ditch Effort , was announced, to be released on October 7; the lead single "Six Years on Dope" was released the same day. On April 17, 2016, they released their autobiography, called NOFX: The Hepatitis Bathtub and Other Stories. During the tour, named the Hepatitis Bathtub Tour, they did book signings on some dates. On December 16 a special hard-covered edition with
4312-426: The band, who have appeared on every release by the band, although Sandin departed briefly in 1985, only to rejoin the following year. El Hefe joined the band in 1991 to play lead guitar and trumpet , rounding out the best-known iteration of the lineup. NOFX's mainstream success coincided with increased interest in punk rock during the 1990s; unlike many of their contemporaries, however, they had never been signed to
4400-417: The camera captured her doing almost everything – brushing her teeth, doing her laundry, and even having sex with her boyfriend. Her website generated millions of hits upon the Internet, became a pay site in 1998, and spawned hundreds of female imitators who would then use streaming video to create a new billion dollar industry called camming , and brand themselves as camgirls or webcam models. One of
4488-454: The cover art for these extended plays was chosen from fan-submitted entries. On August 16, 2019, NOFX released a new single, "Fish in a Gun Barrel". The song was written in response to mass shootings in America, with proceeds from the single going to anti-gun-violence charity Moms Demand Action . On March 23, 2020, NOFX released a video for another new song, "PRBOD". A few days later,
SECTION 50
#17327870876344576-590: The earliest instances of sequential live image broadcasting was in 1991 when a camera was set up next to the Trojan Room in the computer laboratory of the University of Cambridge . It provided a live picture every few minutes of the office coffee pot to all desktop computers on that office's network. A couple of years later its broadcasts went to the Internet, became known as the Trojan Room Coffee Pot webcam , and gained international notoriety as
4664-592: The earliest webcast equivalent of an online concert and one of the earliest examples of webcasting itself was by Apple Computer 's Webcasting Group in partnership with the entrepreneurs Michael Dorf and Andrew Rasiej. Together with David B. Pakman from Apple , they launched the Macintosh New York Music Festival from July 17–22, 1995. This event audio webcast concerts from more than 15 clubs in New York City. Apple later webcast
4752-454: The early 1980s. The station was set up to broadcast through the electric system in the dormitories of East Halls, via a carrier current, a system that failed miserably, so the station's main broadcast was through speakers into Johnston and Findlay commons. At some point, the station lost its ability to transmit over the radio dial and was forced to accept being heard infrequently on Penn State University's House and Food Services (HFS) Channel 21 on
4840-509: The early 1990s, having become aware of the lack of student broadcasting options on WPSU and disillusioned with their options, decided to give student radio another try. A small group, led by Jeff Ecker, asked the university to provide funding to begin a brand-new student-run radio station in the tradition of WDFM prior to its professionalization. The new station would seek to serve the listening community by providing alternative and cultural programming not found in local commercial radio. WKPS went on
4928-535: The extended play The Longest Line , followed by the studio album White Trash, Two Heebs and a Bean , released in May and November 1992 respectively. Also in 1992, NOFX's former label Mystic Records released Maximum Rocknroll , which compiles early singles and demo songs and is a reissue of their 1989 long-out-of-print compilation tape E Is for Everything . Despite being referred to as an "official" release, Fat Mike has been quoted as saying that he did not know that
5016-622: The extended play's cover and the "Cokie the Clown" music video ) during live performances. Fat Mike performed a solo acoustic performance on March 20, 2010, at the SXSW Festival as Cokie, which was described as "strange, emotional, and intimate." At the end of the concert, after debuting a new song called "Drinking Pee", a video that was played for the audience suggested that a number of festival participants unknowingly drank Fat Mike's urine. The stunt resulted in Fat Mike getting banned from
5104-935: The fall. I've got 12 songs, but I don't have a name for it, and only a few of the songs are finished," he says. "We're demo-ing it right now." A 7" single, My Stepdad's a Cop and My Stepmom's a Domme , featuring new songs recorded prior to the sessions for Self Entitled , was released in June 2012. NOFX released their twelfth studio album, Self Entitled , on September 11, 2012. NOFX also released X'mas Has Been X'd on January 15, 2013, and their 30th anniversary LP box set on February 19, 2013. NOFX toured in Australia starting November 5, 2014. They performed in Sydney , Newcastle, New South Wales , Wollongong , Brisbane , Darwin, Northern Territory , Adelaide , Perth , Melbourne , Geelong , and Gold Coast, Queensland . NOFX toured
5192-402: The first endowed fund benefiting WKPS to support the perpetual financial needs of student broadcasting. In 2011, another former President and General Manager, Brandon W. Peach, was elected to head the Alumni Interest Group. During his tenure the name of the group changed to the Penn State Media Association, while its mission expanded beyond traditional broadcasting to foster "relationships across
5280-631: The future, it was ultimately heralded as the decision which would keep the station firmly within the students' grasp. Lacking in any professional oversight, the early radio station relied heavily on the staff of WPSU-FM 91.5 FM, with whom they shared the University-rented James building (also shared by the Daily Collegian ). Any oversight and support were extremely short-lived, however: WPSU relocated in May 1998. According to its Federal Communications Commission , WKPS tweaked
5368-429: The globe to more than twenty direct "mirrors" in more than twenty countries. In September 1997, Nebraska Public Television started webcasting Big Red Wrap Up from Lincoln, Nebraska which combined highlights from every Cornhusker football game, coverage of the coaches' weekly press conferences, analysis with Nebraska sportswriters, appearances by special guests and questions and answers with viewers. On August 8, 1997,
SECTION 60
#17327870876345456-613: The interdisciplinary nature of contemporary media." In 2014, the Penn State Media Association launched its second capital campaign, this time to create the "Penn State Media Association Trustee Scholarship for Student Broadcasters." The capital campaign seeks to endow this scholarship to benefit WKPS students with demonstrated financial need, and once realized will produce more than $ 10,000 annually in available scholarship assistance to student broadcasters. 40°47′58″N 77°52′11″W / 40.79944°N 77.86972°W / 40.79944; -77.86972 Webcast A webcast
5544-434: The most successful independent bands ever. In 2008, NOFX broadcast their own show on Fuse entitled NOFX: Backstage Passport . The band retired after a 2024 tour. In 1983, guitarist Eric Melvin met bassist/vocalist Mike Burkett (Fat Mike) and started the band under the name NO-FX, after a Boston hardcore punk band called Negative FX . At this time, they were joined by drummer Erik "Smelly" Sandin. NOFX's first recording
5632-658: The name Eating Lamb . The artwork for the CD featured a man holding a sheep, while the LP depicted the same man in a 69 position with the sheep. The Eating Lamb version was banned from sale in Germany due to its obscene cover art. The LP version did not achieve the success of its predecessor, although it was the first NOFX record to achieve a position on the Billboard charts, reaching number 63. Fat Mike stated: "Weird record. I thought it
5720-621: The nation" and possessed "one of the first experimental licenses" granted by the government. By 1921 WPSC was broadcasting on the AM dial at 500 watts and was one of the earliest college radio stations in the nation. Due to a combination of the Great Depression and increasing costs of regulatory compliance, the station ceased operations in 1932. Today, the WPSC call letters are assigned to William Paterson University . In an effort to reestablish
5808-443: The on-campus cable television system. The last broadcast schedule was posted on the station's website in 2005. Since that time, with limited resources, finances and student interest, WEHR ceased to function. The last staff to operate East Halls radio was Evan Raffel as General Manager, Alex Kozak and Programming Director, Jack Greening as deejay, Michael Boyson as Treasurer and James Peters as Business Manager. East Halls radio facility
5896-506: The original goals of WDFM, citing primarily the need to provide for the State College community and Penn State students with public service; secondarily, the need to provide a hands-on, co-curricular learning environment for students of any academic major interested in broadcast media; and finally, to provide a recreational extracurricular activity for students. Therefore, WKPS was open to students of all majors, not specifically those in
5984-560: The previous year, were launched for student and community audience of both State College residents and distant alumni. The webcasts continue to be popular, nearly reaching their listener capacity limit each time The LION 90.7fm broadcasts a Penn State football game. In 2008, President and General Manager Tom Shakely began working with alumni to resuscitate the Penn State Student Radio Alumni Interest Group, an affiliate non-profit organization of
6072-408: The public telephone network or communication over mobile telephone networks. Such return channels conveyed each user's requests for the delivery of specific content over the broadcast medium. Eventually, DVB satellite operators were to offer a higher bandwidth return channel using DVB-RCS , raising the prospect of "point-to-point connections with users' satellite dishes". Webcasting had been regarded as
6160-478: The radio station. Though she allegedly cited WKPS's flagship talk show Radio Free Penn State as the cause, she denied that its administratively-critical tack led to her decision. Instead, she claimed that The Lion 90.7FM was only promised three years of support by Asbury, a charge Asbury himself did not contest. The station managed to stay afloat, and with charitable contributions from listeners and alumni and help from UPAC, The Lion 90.7FM maintained its position in
6248-480: The salary for a faculty adviser, which the new station had lacked since its inception. Jeff Brown, the faculty adviser, quickly moved to promote the agenda of the College of Communications - to create an exclusively co-curricular experience - without regard to the station's stated goals or charter as an extracurricular club in Student Affairs. The rocky relationship continued and reached a boiling point when
6336-608: The single "Darby Crashing," a reworked version of a song from their 2019-2020 7 inch of the Month Club , on the same day. NOFX also announced three in-progress albums: Half Album , Everybody Else Is Insane , and NOFX: A–Z . On March 6, 2024, Half Album was revealed to be an EP, which was released on April 19, 2024, and the band released the single "I'm a Rat". NOFX played their final ever live shows after 41 years of performing live from October 4–6, 2024 in San Pedro, California . During their final show on October 6, NOFX played
6424-494: The station's FCC License, held by the Penn State Board of Trustees for another eight-year term. Faculty adviser Robert Zimmerman died on Monday, January 15, 2007, due to an allergic reaction to medication. He was 73 years old. The LION 90.7fm continued to operate, but was financially jeopardized due to high operating expenses and limited income sources. Recent graduate and former WKPS officer Christopher Buchignani
6512-540: The summer of 2011. The 10" features covers from the Necros and D.O.A. and songs such as "Police Brutality" and "Race Riot." The album was released on a vinyl record and has been distributed to independent record companies around the U.S., Great Britain, and elsewhere. On February 14, 2012, in an article on Rolling Stone 's website, Fat Mike said that a new album was on the way. "We're recording in April, and it should be out in
6600-489: The tradition of student radio at Penn State, WDFM went on the air on December 6, 1953 as a result of the Senior Gift of the Class of 1951. Headquarters in 304 Sparks on the University Park campus, WDFM served its student audience for more than three decades. It changed its call letters to WPSU-FM in 1985. From the 1980s onward, student programming was progressively cut back. Later in the decade, more NPR programming
6688-567: The wedding in person. On August 13, 1998, the first webcast wedding took place, between Alan K'necht and Carrie Silverman in Toronto Canada . The first webcast teleconference wedding to date is believed to have occurred on December 31, 1998. Dale Ficken and Lorrie Scarangella wed on this date as they stood in a church in Pennsylvania, and were married by Jerry Falwell while he sat in his office in Lynchburg, Virginia . Webcasting
6776-506: The world to broadcast its signal over the internet. Translated versions including Subtitling are now possible using SMIL Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language . A webcast of a wedding may be called a wedcast ; it allows family and friends of the couple to watch the wedding in real time on the Internet . It is sometimes used for weddings in exotic locations, where it would be expensive or difficult for people to travel to see
6864-526: Was a demo from 1984, entitled Thalidomide Child , produced by Germs drummer Don Bolles , which did not sell many copies, and Fat Mike once claimed that no copies existed. The demo would be re-released in 2012. The group released its self-titled debut extended play NOFX on Mystic Records in 1985; it was later re-released in 1992 as part of the Maximum Rocknroll CD. The band's line-up underwent numerous changes prior to 1991. For
6952-509: Was a redesigned version of the cover from the NOFX extended play. NOFX recorded their debut studio album Liberal Animation in 1988 with Brett Gurewitz of Bad Religion . Although the title and some of the album's lyrics mocked vegetarianism and animal rights, Fat Mike says that he became a vegetarian after writing the Liberal Animation album. The album was reissued in 1991 on Gurewitz's label Epitaph Records . Casillas left
7040-458: Was added to the schedule. By 1992, WPSU had become a full-fledged NPR affiliate with very few student ties and very little student programming. Despite the fact that the "new" radio station's mission and goals were dissimilar to those of early WDFM, the university allowed WPSU to exist. Founded in the 1960s, WHR was the first of three stations at Penn State specific to University Park residence halls. WHR, which stood for West Halls Radio, rebroadcast
7128-464: Was chosen from fan-submitted entries. The first 3,000 subscribers to the club received all of their records on colored vinyl. Fat Wreck Chords later released full sets of the extended plays. On March 14, 2006, the EP Never Trust a Hippy was released. It was followed on April 18 by the studio album Wolves in Wolves' Clothing . On September 12, 2006, the video game EA Sports NHL 07
7216-408: Was designated the main studio, with additional offices, one of which would become The Lion's production room, allotted to the station on floor three. On October 1, 2003, the station went live from Room 9. Though the new station was smaller than the station to which the staff had become accustomed, it allowed for The LION 90.7fm to be physically independent. Live webcasts, added to the station's website
7304-600: Was hired for substantially less to replace Jeff Brown for one year. In the summer of 2003, the College of Communications, who leased the space in the James Building, forced The LION 90.7fm to evict. [Stanley Latta, Director of Unions & Student Activities under Penn State's office of Student Affairs, authorized the station's move to the Hetzel Union Building . Room 9, right next to the HUB's large aquarium,
7392-511: Was released on one CD or two seven-inch vinyl records, which are called Cokie the Clown and My Orphan Year . The extended play consists of outtakes from the Coaster sessions. NOFX started its spring 2010 "Fermented and Flailing" tour on April 21. This was the official tour for its album Coaster . During this time period, Fat Mike would occasionally adopt the Cokie the Clown persona (as seen on
7480-522: Was released, featuring "Wolves in Wolves' Clothing" on its soundtrack, produced by Bill Stevenson and Fat Mike. NOFX's song "Kill All the White Man" was played briefly in the action movie Crank in 2006, and was credited as such in the film's soundtrack. In January 2007, the band recorded three nights of performances in San Francisco, California, for their second live album, They've Actually Gotten Worse Live! , released November 20, 2007. The live album
7568-416: Was said to house potentially the largest student archive of vinyl on-campus. From 1995 until 2005, Penn State had two student-run radio stations. By 2005, only WKPS remained. Founded in the same year as WEHR, South Halls Radio was similarly inspired by WHR. Like its sister stations serving residence halls, it existed alongside WDFM, WHR, and WEHR to serve its student audience. A growing number of students in
7656-565: Was the coolest record when we finished it, but a few months later I wasn't so sure. Some of those songs are kinda weird. I like the cover a lot though. I think it sold well in Belgium." In 1997, the band released So Long and Thanks for All the Shoes , a return to faster punk, as exemplified by the frenetic opening track, "It's My Job to Keep Punk Rock Elite." NOFX released The Decline , an 18-minute single-track extended play, which served as
7744-486: Was to feature NOFX alongside Rancid , Pennywise , the Mighty Mighty Bosstones and Me First and the Gimme Gimmes . In a May 2018 interview, Fat Mike hinted that NOFX was working on new material. In February 2019, Fat Mike announced the NOFX 7" of the Month Club, a new subscription-based service scheduled for the release of 12 new extended plays almost monthly. As with the previous 2005 installment,
#633366