Final Article

91.5 The Impulse is known as WWLR and it is a student run program that is housed on the campus of Lyndon State College at 1001 College Road, Lyndonville Vermont. It has an output of 3,000 watts and reaches all of Caledonia County Vermont and most of Coos County New Hampshire. Students are able to pick a time slot of two hours a show and can create whatever type of show they want. The students have a variety of show types ranging from heavy metal to talk radio and they cover everything in between. Students gain real world experience with the station because 91.5 The Impulse is always updating its music library and giving students the opportunity to grow as radio personalities. The station WWLR does not format its programming other than its two hour show block, and as a result of this the faculty, staff, and student members are permitted free-reign over what music they play or what topics they wish to speak about. The Impulse helps its DJs gain real world experience with its state of the art production room which houses equipment allowing students to manage and produce station promotional material, station identification, and promotional show material. The production room houses high end non-linear audio editing technology allowing students access to professional quality sound effects and industry standard editing for voice recordings and lyrics. While learning about broadcasting and the technical aspect of running a station, DJs who desire to step up a notch can by being involved with management positions. This shows students what its like to run a real radio station in a true business setting. Members gain the radio experience of broadcasting to the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont, and by streaming shows live on the Internet.

Final Podcast and Video

Final Project Map

View WWLR 91.5 Coverage Area in a larger map

Navigating the map you will find we have linked in all of pieces in the points on the map each point containing a link to a part of our project. As well we have put in the link to stream WWLR at the point of the station on the map.

Final Project

For our final project we will be visiting WWLR and speaking with members of the radio station. Some of our goals will be to have a story on their fundraiser where they sold t-shirts, a slide show with Natural sound of someone hosting a show in the radio station, and an accompanying map to illustrate the coverage area for the station and a podcast review of one show.

Video Story

Natural Beauty does not go unappreciated, even by the electronically stimulated generation, when you live here in the northeast kingdom.
You may have to look around for them, but there is plenty of beautiful sights right here near Lyndon State College. Places such Burke Mountain, Lake Willoughby, and historic Darling Hill Road may be some of the most beautiful places not only in the area, but in all of Vermont.
LSC students take the time to enjoy these sights while they have the time up here at school.
“I just love the fresh air,” LSC Senior Kyle Gould said. “It’s nice. We don’t have a lot of people and traffic and stuff that creates a lot of poor air quality like you have in cities, so it’s just nice. ”
62% of students here at LSC are from in state. The other 38% may not have been immersed in the Vermont beauty that the northeast kingdom has to offer.
Burke Mountain, located in East Burke, is the northeast kingdom’s very own ski mountain and resort. People from all over the world travel to see the world-renowned trails and resort that LSC students travel to daily during the winter ski and snowboard season.
“I love being able to go to Burke on a fresh powder day,” said LSC Senior Caleb Noble, who hails from Massachusetts. “There’s nobody at the mountain but you. It’s quiet, it’s beautiful, and there’s nobody around and you just kind of be one with yourself. It’s just a beautiful area.”
Along with Burke Mountain, the world famous Kingdom Trails see millions of visitors every year. The trails cover many miles that LSC students get to ride along during the few warm weeks of the fall semester, and the few warm weeks of the spring

NEK Video Project

Project Idea

For our video project, we're going to be creating a video package of the northeast kingdom. Our sound sources are basically going to be wildlife and natural sound. It will also have narration about what students like about the northeast kingdom.