The New York Times does an extensive close-up on one college radio station and finds it's still the place for creativity and innovation - and that it's not the disappearing dinosaur some think.

"In the late summer of 1991, Nirvana’s era-defining single, “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” leaped from the indie charts to a place atop popular culture, marking what felt like the peak of the college radio’s power and influence.

But if soon after that the internet killed radio, everyone forgot to tell the student stations, which according to Katherine Rye Jewell, 46, a college professor and the author of “Live from the Underground: A History of College Radio,” still number around 1,000 active signals. “We haven’t actually lost that many,” she said in a recent interview."

College Radio Keeps Its Cool