Billboard
Hot 200 Albums from 1974:
#1 Elton
John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
#2 John Denver - John Denver's
Greatest Hits
#3 Paul McCartney/Wings - Band On The
Run
#4 Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
#5 Jim Croce - You Don't Mess Around
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Mid
70's
The 70's continued to see
changes at WJRB including a name change. Desiring to
align more closely with the new university, the station
staff decided to select WVCU as the new station call
letters. But the school administration decided to keep
their options open for a future station not controlled
by students and thus vetoed the desired call letters.
The station decided with that line of thinking the
station could select something different like WCVW. Of
course, this was a little bit of an inside stab at the
administration because everyone at the station knew the
way the new call letters would be read on the air,
"W-C-V-double U". Thus student radio continued to march
forward on the VCU campus into the crazy disco era.
Also, we may have been one of the
few radio stations ever to get requests from listeners
to play an original commercial that we had written and
produced. We were that good.
An
incentive was created to help provide additional funds
to the station's fledgling budget by offering our sales
people a standard commission on all ad sales. After a
great deal of leg work, letter writing and phone calls,
WJRB became the first college radio station in Virginia
to receive permission from the state ABC board to air
commercials promoting the "3.2 beer" that was available
to those 18 years old and older.
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