WBOR (Bowdoin-on-Radio) records
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Scope and Contents
WBOR (91.1 FM) is a non-commercial, community radio station chartered to the President and Trustees of Bowdoin College. WBOR plays music of all types, as well as featuring sports and news programming. Prior to 1951 a weekly radio program "Bowdoin-on-the-Air" was presented by Bowdoin undergraduates through the facilities of station WGAN in Portland. As the result of a gift from the Bowdoin class of 1924, a radio station was built on campus in 1951 on the second floor of Moulton Union and was called WBOA (Bowdoin-on-the-Air). In the late 1950's the campus station became FM and was called WBOR (Bowdoin-on-Radio). The records contains program guides and other printed material.
Dates
- Creation: 1941 - 2025
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions.
Use of Digital Collections
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Extent
6 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Student organization in charge of maintaining the campus radio station (91.1 FM).
Arrangement
Chronological.
Processing Information
Finding aid was created from extracting the records from A04.08 in April 2025 to establish their own collection.
- Title
- Guide to WBOR (Bowdoin-on-Radio) records.
- Author
- Emma Barton-Norris
- Date
- 2025
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine 04011 Repository