Radio

WTST, The Blaze

WTST, The Blaze, is Tennessee State University's student-run campus radio. The station transmits 24 hours, seven days a week through three sources: 1600 AM on campus, Channel 99 on the TSU campus cable system, and on the Web at www.tsuradio.com. 

With an Urban format, WTST is known for "Blazin" the Hottest Hip Hop and R&B on campus, and offers gospel and other music and information programming on the weekends. The station is operated by a full-time operations manager with over a hundred student staff members. The staff includes managers, producers, on-air personalities, and administrative personnel in the following departments: operations, programming, promotions, public relations, production, research, sales, news, sports and remote entertainment.

WTST was selected as Black College Radio Station of the Year in 2002 and 2005 by the Black College Radio Organization. The station will move to a new state-of-the-art, fully-digital radio and media convergence complex in the Performing Arts Building in August 2010.

The operations manager supervises a student staff of nearly a hundred individuals in the areas of programming, promotions, music, production, community/public affairs, news, sports and sales/marketing. TSU Campus Radio features about fifty different student announcers who are assigned weekly air shifts. Radio activities include live sports programming and other remote broadcasts.

  

For more information, contact Mr. Joseph Richie, Operations Manager, at (615) 963-1582 or by e-mail at jrichie@tnstate.edu.