WICR Earns Intercollegiate Broadcasting System Honors
Iona's student radio station earned Best Streaming Only Station for schools with less than 10,000 students.
NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. - Iona College's student radio station, WICR, earned Best Streaming Only Station for schools with less than 10,000 students at the 79th annual Intercollegiate Broadcasting System Awards ceremony in New York City.
Each year, the Intercollegiate Broadcast System honors the best and the brightest among college and high school media. WICR was named a finalist in four categories for the 2019 awards – Best Show Promo, Best Business Director, Best Use of Social Media and the award it won, Best Streaming Only Station (Under 10,000 Students).
The Best Streaming Only award finalists included Berklee College of Music (Boston, Mass.), Simmons University (Boston, Mass.), Wentworth Institute of Technology (Boston, Mass.) and Capital University (Columbus, Ohio).
Brian Moran '19, treasurer for WICR, was also the recipient of the Best Business Director award.
Attending the March 2 ceremony and representing WICR were Kathryn Adriani '19, president; Julia O'Rega '19, vice president and Giuseppe D'Aloisio '14, Iona College media director & WICR Advisor.
The Intercollegiate Broadcasting System is a not-for-profit educational association and foundation founded in 1940 that serves not-for-profit education-affiliated high school radio/TV, college radio/TV, and community stations and streaming/webcasters.
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Founded in 1940, Iona University is a master's-granting private, Catholic, coeducational institution of learning in the tradition of the Edmund Rice Christian Brothers. Iona's 45-acre New Rochelle campus and 28-acre Bronxville campus are just 20 miles north of Midtown Manhattan. With a total enrollment of nearly 4,000 students and an alumni base of more than 50,000 around the world, Iona is a diverse community of learners and scholars dedicated to academic excellence and the values of justice, peace and service. Iona is highly accredited, offering undergraduate degrees in liberal arts, science and business administration, as well as Master of Arts, Master of Science and Master of Business Administration degrees and numerous advanced certificate programs. Iona students enjoy small class sizes, engaged professors and a wide array of academic programs across the School of Arts & Science; LaPenta School of Business; NewYork-Presbyterian Iona School of Health Sciences; and Hynes Institute for Entrepreneurship & Innovation. Iona is widely recognized in prestigious rankings, including The Princeton Review’s 2025 national list of “The Best 390 Colleges” and The Wall Street Journal/College Pulse’s “2024 Best Colleges in America,” which ranked Iona at #66 in the nation overall and #8 in the nation among Catholic schools. Iona’s LaPenta School of Business is also accredited by AACSB International, a recognition awarded to just six percent of business schools worldwide. In addition, The Princeton Review recognized Iona’s on-campus MBA program as a “Best Business School for 2023.” Iona also offers a fully online MBA program for even greater flexibility. In July 2021, Iona announced the establishment of the NewYork-Presbyterian Iona School of Health Sciences, which is now principally located on Iona’s Bronxville campus in collaboration with NewYork-Presbyterian. Connecting to its Irish heritage, the University also recently announced it is expanding abroad with a new campus in County Mayo, Ireland. A school on the rise, Iona officially changed its status from College to University on July 1, 2022, reflecting the growth of its academic programs and the prestige of an Iona education.