including the longtime Tuesday evening show "SportsKnight" - were consolidated into "WRSU Crew", an afternoon drive-time show that often serves as a lead-in to evening sports broadcasts. News WRSU features eight daily newscasts a week - Monday at 10 pm, Tuesday through Thursday at noon and 10 pm, and Fridays at noon. The newscasts cover events, issues, and trends happening at Rutgers, with national and local headline reports, Sports reports, and weather forecasts. The news department also produces KnightBeat, airing every Wednesday at 10 PM. Knight Beat is a news-talk show featuring interviews with campus organizations and leaders, discussions of the latest news headlines, and detailed profiles and discussions of Rutgers issues. The WRSU news department also provides live coverage of Rutgers events, as well as annual election coverage. In recent years WRSU has broadcast from both the Democratic and Republican Presidential Conventions Headquarters. WRSU provided live coverage of the 2008 Presidential election on November 4, featuring live reports from the New Jersey Democratic and Republican headquarters, analysis by Rutgers political commentators, up-to-the-minute results, and live reports from College Avenue during student celebrations. History WRSU first went on the air on April 26, 1948. In its earliest inception, WRSU was an AM carrier current station that broadcast from 12 College Avenue, with transmitters in the basements of several Rutgers dormitory buildings, as well as at the New Jersey College for Women, which would eventually become Douglass College. During this period, WRSU ran on the 630 AM band. The station's first General Manager and Founder was Charles Brookwell, Class of '49. Beginning in the 1950s, the station changed frequencies and changed operating facilities, eventually moving to 680 on the AM band. The carrier current transmitters were expanded to include operation in 23 dormitory buildings on three campuses. The current offices of the station began to be utilized in 1969 and are located at 126 College Avenue located in the Rutgers Student Center. WRSU-AM ceased operation in 1976, two years after the inception of WRSU-FM. WRSU-FM WRSU-FM went on the air at 88.7 MHz with 1350 watts ERP on January 27, 1974. During the 1950s and 1960s, the station played current popular music, but starting in the '70s, the station underwent a conscious effort to introduce album-oriented progressive/free form movement with a heavy concentration on Community Affairs. The first song ever played was Crosby, Stills, and Nash's "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" The