Radio Universidade de Coimbra (RUC) is the oldest running university radio station in Portugal, a freeform independent alternative radio station - both a radio-school and a local broadcaster in central Portugal (107.9 FM). All radio programs are author's programs. This means that all compulsory playlists are banned by principle. The person hosting a radio program is entirely free to choose what music to play. As a result, there's a multiple and eccletic offer of radio contents - programs ("shows") about pop, rock, electronic, dance, jazz, classical music, soundtracks, covers, portuguese music, japanese music, canadian music, chiptunes, hip hop, worldmusic, blues, rockabilly, chanson française, gothic, punk, krautrock, noise, experimental improvisations performed live, metal, medieval, exotica, mathematics, literature, cinema, ecology, science...