WRVR-FM was a public radio station owned and operated by The Riverside Church in the City of New York that began broadcasting on January 1, 1961 and continued as a commercial radio station from September 1971 until 1976.
Thanks to a grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), a collaboration between the Library of Congress, GBH, and American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB), we are pleased to make our digitized collection available to the public. You are invited to explore the WRVR Collection, which spans 1961-1973 and includes a wide variety of programming: progressive religious and philosophical discussions, sermons, speeches, and event coverage. Highlights include documentary coverage of the Civil Rights movement in Birmingham in 1963, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous Beyond Vietnam speech, and episodes of Just Jazz with Ed Beach.