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...very ironic because Internet radio is one of the best things that has happened to the music industry in the last decade... It's given voice to genres and artists that have never gotten airplay before." Indeed, most music released every year is never heard on terrestrial AM and FM radio, with most songs on corporate-owned stations coming from Top-40 and other similar blockbuster acts. As a result, over the past five years Internet radio listenership has grown to almost 30 million, said Ohio Rep. Steve Chabot, the ranking Republican member on the Small Business Committee...
...only art that will be on display. In honor of the 40th anniversary of the release of the legendary album “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” the Harvard Square Business Association and Boston-area classic rock radio station WZLX (100.7 FM) have prepared selections of artwork by many of the Beatles, making The Ringo Starr Fine Art Show the largest collection of signed Beatles artwork ever assembled, according to organizers...
You’re looking at WHRB-FM 95.3, Harvard Radio Broadcasting. From its humble, closed-circuit beginnings in 1940, WHRB (the undergraduate staffers call it “Wirb”) has become a station broadcasting across the Boston area and, via the Internet, around the world...
...students began to acquire FM radios, a move to FM broadcasting only seemed natural to WHRBies of the era. An added advantage of becoming an FM station was that WHRB could be heard beyond Harvard buildings. “Clearly in terms of graduate students who didn’t live in dormitories, faculty and the greater community the original system properly engineered was not available,” Malone says. “By switching to FM we immediately extended the geographic reach of the station...
Snagging an FM license wasn’t easy, however, and the transformation required quite a bit of legal work that took up most of the 1956-57 academic year. In February 25, 1957—a full year after Kalmus’s announcement—the Federal Communications Commission finally approved the station’s license application, and in May of that year WHRB-FM signed on for the first time at a frequency of 107.1 megahertz...