WALF is a radio station

Radio station

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  broadcasting a Variety

Variety (radio)

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 format. Licensed to Alfred, New York

Alfred (village), New York

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, USA, the station serves the New York college area. The station is owned by Alfred University.

History

WALF-FM started in November 1971 in the basement of 6 Sayles Street, and has since moved twice, to Steinheim in the mid-1970s, and then to its current location in the Powell Campus Center when it opened in 1993.

WALF-FM is run by student volunteers, and has a freeform genre - allowing the student volunteer DJ

Disc jockey

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s to play what they want (within Federal Communications Commission

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regulations). The students produce most of the programming from 9:00am-2:00am, with some programming including faculty and community members.