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225 Years of Tar Heels: Carl Kasell


Long before National Public Radio’s lucky listeners could win ’s voice on their answering machine, he was helping put what would become one of the nation’s top NPR affiliates on the air. As UNC students in the 1950s, Kasell and classmate founded WUNC, a UNC student-run station that would later become North Carolina Public Radio. (UNC.edu)

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