Greetings from Cleveland and from Mary Cipriani, the co-host of the U2 Marathon on WBWC. Todd Richards and I will be back for yet another special U2 broadcast day on Thursday September 3rd, starting at 7am (USA Eastern timezone) and running non-stop for 18 straight hours.
The various U2 fan websites probably won't post any stories about the marathon until the week of the event (because otherwise it'll scroll off the main page and people will forget about it), so I decided to post some early info here in the online chat to announce the event and try to answer any questions you might have too.
If you've listened online to this broadcast event before, you know what it's all about! If you haven't heard of this before....
WBWC is a commercial-free student-operated college radio station at Baldwin Wallace College in Berea, Ohio, and we have held these artist marathon events each Thursday in summer for the last 27 years. This will be the 10th U2 Marathon that I've co-hosted at WBWC! This 18 hour event focuses exclusively on one band during the broadcast day, and will feature their entire catalog, including b-sides, live recordings, remixes and rare tracks. No song is too rare or obscure for us to play! Previous marathons have featured exclusive interviews with Willie Williams, Joe O'Herlihy, Rocko Reedy, Neil McCormick and others - tune in to hear this year's special guests!
Requests can be emailed to: request@wbwc.com (include subject of "U2 Marathon") or call our Request Line the day of the marathon at 440-826-7846 or you can submit a request using the online form posted at www.wbwc.com
Fans outside of the Greater Cleveland area, can listen in via streaming audio. WBWC.Com audio requires RealPlayer 8 or RealOne to listen, which can be downloaded free from - www.real.com/player/ Once you've installed the Real software on your computer, click on "Listen Now" from the station's home page www.wbwc.com You might want to install the Real software and test your connection before the event to make sure you can listen to us online.
We'll have an online listening party thread in U2.Com's Zootopia on the 3rd. Join in the fun and send us your requests!
Thanks anyway