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There were college stations before the 1930s," he says. "UConn, for example, had one. So, I would never say we're the oldest college radio station. But theirs was part of the agricultural radio network. Student radio—student-owned-and-operated radio—started at Brown in 1936. And Wesleyan's was the second in that model. And now Brown's FM radio is gone; they're an internet-only station. I often say that we are the last of the original student-owned and student-operated stations. That's the point of discernment.