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The Radio Workshop of Harpur College formed in 1954 to get students production work at the commercial stations around Binghamton. By October 1961 its members were building an AM transmitter of their own, and in May 1962 they put WRAF on the air as a carrier-current signal out of Rafuse Residence Hall. The FM licence dates the station to 1966, and when free-form fell out of fashion in the mid-seventies and other FM stations took up playlists, this one never did. It runs two kilowatts from the Bartle Library tower.

Volunteers apprentice under a member for a full programming season and sit a clearance exam before they get an hour, and since 1996 accrued service hours have decided who gets which one. The result is a grid of personal hours, rock in most directions: Uncle Pete does punk, psychobilly and surf, The Signal runs folk into alt-country and bluegrass, and Joe G. plays reggae old and new.