September 2025 | Written by Samantha Boggs

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Hi there! Do you ever wonder, are radio stations still around? Luckily, your campus has one! UWAVE Radio has been an established student-led 24/7 radio station at the University of Washington Bothell and has been serving the UWB community since 2011.  

Let’s meet the UWAVE team! I am Samantha Boggs, in my 3^rd year studying Electrical Engineering. I am your station manager, serving you a running station, making sure we are at your service during in-campus events, hosting events like Open Mic Night, and assisting my teammates and more! Meet Catilin Zhou, our 2^nd Program Director in UWAVE history. She curates all the programming you hear on the stream, keeping up with the charts and bringing you knew music. She also oversees volunteers, enabling student programmers from any background to bring their radio show/ podcast to life while being compliant with the FCC (Federal Communication Commision) regulations. Austin Robertson, our new Studio Engineer, ensures our broadcasting equipment and software function smoothly. He also will assist with DJing for UWAVE. 

Enough about us, here are opportunities waiting for you at the studio. Our 24/7 stream is always welcoming new content. Therefore, if YOU are interested in making a podcast/ radio show, submitting your own music, or DJing for a campus event please check out our website and get involved by filling in the forms listed ASAP. No experience is required.  

If your club or organization needs help with music during your events or other occasions, you can also put in a DJ request through our website, and we will be there bringing you the music. 

Looking ahead of the school year, my goal with UWAVE this year is to bring a 11-watt transmitter to life, which will bring us a step away of being an online-streaming station to a legitimate LPFM (Low Power Frequency Modulo) Station, where you can tune in your car for student-made content and emergency alerts within the Bothell community and expand from there. We also want to gather more student insights into what they like to hear music and program wise. While improving our service to a greater number of listeners, we aim to cultivate more campus culture and engagement like mini outdoor concerts and bringing music to everyone. 

Do you have any ideas, or would you like to talk to us? We would love to talk to you! 
You can email me uwbsm@uw.edu.  

Get involved with making your own podcast/ radio show/ submitting your own music, submitting a DJ request or DJ with us at https://uwaveradio.org/  and connect through our Instagram @uwaveradio. 

I am super excited to serve you this academic year and always open to new ideas and hear what students like and want! Your Voice, Your Vibe. 

– Samantha Boggs, UWave Radio Station Manager