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Katie Lauer

From protests to punk to pandemic: KALX celebrates 60 years of student-run radio at UC Berkeley

BERKELEY, Calif. — News reports on anti-war protests of the late 1960s. Play-by-play for Oakland A’s games in the ’70s. A 1985 interview with infamous cult killer Charles Manson. An early live-in-studio performance by a teenaged Green Day. Public-safety announcements through the COVID pandemic.

KALX has broadcast them all.

This year, UC Berkeley’s student-run radio station — streaming online and at 90.7 on the FM dial — is celebrating 60 years of broadcasting, solidifying its place as one of the longest-running college radio stations in the U.S.

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