Inside HBCU radio preservation at Elizabeth City State University

In the heart of North Carolina’s Inner Banks, a story of radio preservation is unfolding. Episode 2 of “Broadcasting History: The HBCU Radio Legacy” takes listeners to Elizabeth City State University, where WRVS-FM has served as a vital community voice since 1986 and where our preservation team uncovered decades of audio history that almost disappeared forever. A Station Born to Serve Elizabeth City State University was founded in 1891 as a normal school training teachers for the region’s African American children. Nearly a century later, WRVS-FM took to the airwaves, providing live coverage of home football and basketball games that

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