Underwriting on WHWS - Reach your Target Market!

• Are you a local business looking to reach the HWS community?
• Are you a student group looking to raise awareness about your group and its events?
• Are you an HWS department looking to interact with the Geneva community?

UNDERWRITING ON WHWS IS FOR YOU!

Learn more about how your message can be heard on our airwaves and reach a wide variety of local audiences, and for very reasonable rates!   Student Group discounts available!

Contact Greg Cotterill at (315) 781-3186 or via e-mail

Football PreGameShow on WHWS - Sept.25th @ 5:30pm

New for 2010: Boswell Field

MONDAY MORNING UPDATE:
Check out some pics of the tent and the show!

In honor of homecoming weekend, and the first ever night football game at The Boz, WHWS will broadcast a special Pre-Game Show starting at 5:30pm and running until live coverage of the Hobart / St. John Fisher football game begins on our sister station, WEOS 89.7FM (in other words, about 6:45pm, give or take).

Hosted by our crack sportscasting team of Will Wetzel, Mackenzie Larsen, Don Lappe and Joe Lasky...we'll have an extensive breakdown on the 2-0 Statesmen football season to date, with wins over Dickinson and Carnegie Mellon that were perhaps expected, but nonetheless provided some pleasant surprises in breakout performances from first years Steven Webb (runningback) and Devon Worthington (linebacker).

Plus the Statesmen's prospects against a dominant 3-0 SJFC Cardinals who, so far, have put the hurt on Brockport (55-12), Buff State (54-26), and U of R (49-21).

We'll also have roundups and interviews with coaches from other HWS sports, and we'll touch on national, regional and local sports, too.  And since this is a big tailgate party, we'll have some HWS alums over to share their wistful tales of yore!  :-)  If you're coming, make sure to stop by our tent!

It's all coming up Saturday September 25th at 5:30pm as part of the 2010 Homecoming Weekend at HWS!

Ra Ra Riot plays The Cracker Factory in Geneva!

The band with their first album
THE RHUMB LINE at the WHWS Studios

On Saturday September 18th @ 7:30pm Geneva's own Ra Ra Riot will play live at the newest venue in town: The Cracker Factory in north Geneva (35 Lehigh St near Club 86).

Former Gym Class Hero guitarist Milo Bonacci formed RRR in 2006 with vocalist Wes Miles, bassist Matthieu Santos, cellist Alexandra Lawn, violinist Rebecca Zeller and drummer Gabriel Duquette.   They just released their sophomore album The Orchard last month and gearing up for their latest tour!   You can hear a Ra Ra Riot track as a WHWS Featured Artist at the top of every hour.

For more info and tickets,  
click here!

Special Announcement: tune in to WHWS Saturday night to hear Ra Ra Riot LIVE on 105.7FM!!!!!

Students Shows are BACK!

Trust me.  This kid may look like a wimp with
that faux leather jacket and lame-ass ponytail.
But he will rock your ass off.  Seriously.

Starting this week, students return to the airwaves at WHWS!  We've got over 25 airshifts lined up, and more to come soon!

Check out the schedule and see who's on when, and if you're an HWS Student, pick a time to come in and do your OWN show so you can rock Geneva's airwaves!

"Welcome Back Students" Show Featuring Shwayze!

Photo by Greg Cotterill

HWS Campus Activities Board is putting on a FREE SHOW on the Hobart Quad in the Bristol Field House on Saturday September 4th at 7:00pm featuring SHWAYZE and opening act Charm Face!

POST SHOW UPDATE:
One word: AWESOME!!!  Probably just as well the show was moved to the Field House.  While the rain never really fell, it was pretty windy and it got downright cold out that night, with temps dropping to the low 50's.  But it was plenty hot in the Field House with Charm Face rocking a solid set and Shwayze whipping the crowd into an ecstatic frenzy! 

We've been told there were over 1000 people at the show, and we have some pics for YOU!  Check out our Facebook page for 'em all!

And props to all the folks who showed up wearing the new WHWS lime and purple t-shirts!!!  :-)

WHWS - Join the Best Radio Station on Campus!

If you couldn't make last night's Opening General Meeting for WHWS, don't fret! You can still sign up to be involved with Hobart and William Smith College Radio!

Just go to the STAFF page and click the blue "Sign Up Form" button. If you're signing up with a friend, make sure EACH of you fill out your own form.

Then, if you're a new student to WHWS, sign up for a training session using the green "Schedule Training" button. Training takes about an hour or so, and is held at the WHWS studios at 113 Hamilton St. (near the corner of Pulteney St and Rtes 5 & 20)

You'll also want to get in touch with our Program Director (and Student General Manager) Vienna Farlow via our contact page.

HWS Sports Coverage begins Sept.1st!

Herons Field Hockey!

WHWS kicks off its coverage of the 2010-2011 season of HWS Athletics coverage with the William Smith Herons facing SUNY Oswego in Field Hockey, live from McCooey Field, at 7:00pm on Wednesday September 1st!

Join us and sportscaster Joe Lasky with all the play-by-play action - our full schedule of games is posted on the SPORTS page!

WHWS broadcasts HWS Convocation 2010!

Aaron Williams

Join WHWS at 5:00pm on Wednesday September 1st as we broadcast the HWS Convocation ceremony from Stern Lawn, with guest speaker Aaron Williams, Director of the Peace Corps.

Williams is the 18th director of the Peace Corps, and fourth to have previously served as a Peace Corps volunteer.  (HWS President Mark Gearan was the 14th director)

At the time of his nomination he was serving as vice president for international development at RTI International, a nonprofit research institute headquartered in North Carolina, with offices in the U.S. and around the world. A former senior official with the United States Agency for International Development  (USAID), Williams was a volunteer in the Peace Corps in the Dominican Republic in 1967-70. He also was coordinator of minority recruitment for the Peace Corps in Chicago in 1970-71. Williams was confirmed by unanimous consent of the Senate on Friday, August 7, 2009, and sworn in as Director on August 25.

Uncle Sam wants YOU to join WHWS!

Your Colleges' radio station needs you!  WHWS is Hobart and William Smith College Radio and that means it's student-run radio.   Students are the DJ's.  Students are the management.  It's by students, for students!

So how can you be involved?  Find out!  Come to the Opening General Meeting!

WED. SEPTEMBER 1st

7:00PM in Coxe Hall Rm.008

See this Event on our Facebook Group!

No previous experience required - we'll train you!  All you need is a sense of fun!  Just bring yourself to the meeting - we'll do a short presentation about the station, answer any questions, have you fill out a quick one-page form telling us when you want a show, and get you signed up for training.   Training takes an hour or two, and then you're on your way to broadcasting to the masses!

• Are you the friend that always has the latest new spins that you're pushing on all your friends?
• Do you just love to talk?  I mean, like non-stop for six hours about anything and everything?
• Are you an HWS sports fan?  You'll go see every game no matter the place or the weather?
• Are you bent on ruling the world and you recognize that controlling the media is an important first step?

If you said YES to any of these, then WHWS is for YOU!

Whether you just want to come in and play music for an hour, or whether you want to be a sportscaster on any one of a 100 games (plus playoffs!) every season, or maybe you love to ham it up and perform on the public stage?   WHWS has a role for you!   Plus we have management jobs for people looking to gain valuable experience towards a career in radio or communications, and earn a few bucks along the way.

If you have questions, feel free to CONTACT THE PROGRAM DIRECTOR ahead of the meeting!