88.7 WPCD FM

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An always mutating Radio Laboratory driven by the students of Parkland College

88.7 WPCD (Parkland College District) is an indie/alternative/punk rock station serving the Champaign-Urbana listening area and beyond. With a massive signal output, WPCD reaches listeners across central Illinois and into parts of western Indiana. At any one time, 88.7 can reach over 200,000 listeners, not including an online listening stream. Based out of Parkland College, the station has worked

with The Pitchfork Music Festival radio campaign in 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011 and has helped promote Champaign-Urbana's very own Pygmalion Music Festival as one of the presenting sponsors in 2011. Other notable past music affiliations include Daytrotter's Barnstormer concert series and SXSW Music Fest 2009.

88.7 and Parkland College have also hosted several concerts and artist performances including Matt and Kim, So Many Dynamos, Empires, and This Providence. Formerly known as "The Wave" the station dropped its longtime name in early 2011 and is now known simply as 88.7 WPCD FM, eighty-eight seven, or WPCD.

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Parkland College
Champaign, IL
61821

Telephone

+12173733790

Website

http://parkland.edu/wpcd

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WPCD FM 88.7 is the educational, non-commercial radio station of Parkland College. 88.7 broadcasts 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with an indie/alternative rock format. It serves as a hands-on learning lab for students in COM 141 and 142. Students hone their skills by working at WPCD in a variety of capacities. Our power of 10,500 watts covers all of Parkland College’s District 505 area and much of East Central Illinois, including Danville, Decatur, Rantoul, Bloomington, and all of Champaign-Urbana, reaching close to 200,000 people. WPCD also streams worldwide on the Internet.