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Several members said the Jubilee Committee may petition the University for Memorial Hall as a site for the show. Mem Hall will accommodate 900 people in any position...
Salerno's attitude is typical--the people down at WHRB's studo in the basement of Mem Hall refuse to prostitute their taste and pander to the people at large. WHRB has a fixed image, and they are proud and defensive about it. No rock 'n' roll ever comes over their air, and the word they use most often to describe themselves, and their listeners, is "esoteric". "We have an eclectic, esoteric, kind of programming," says Joe Erlanger '67, this year's Station Manager. Another member modestly asserts that WHRB'S programming standards classical jazz, and folk music "the finest...
...Renaissance," or "Great Chamber Music" shows are balanced by the popular trad jazz show "Here Comes the Hot Tamale Man" (Barry Hilton '66), the daily "jazz Entree," or the Baladeers" and "Hillbilly at Harvard." There are also documentaries, and weekly broadcasts of the Ford Hall Forum and the Mem Church Sunday service, although much less time is given to non-musical...
...shoe string," says Webb and WHRB is no exception, even though it has no salaries to pay. Expensive equipment has to be bought fairly often, as WHRB expands and tries to keep up with the "state of the art." The station just moved in January to its new Mem Hall studio, and although Harvard provides the space, they paid for all the renovation and new equipment, Webb explained. The station is also in the process of converting to FM stereo broadcasting, installing a larger transmitter, and improving its closed circuit broadcasting to Harvard and Radcliffe...
...College, though. A Cliffie once picked up her phone to make a call, and was slightly suprised to hear music coming out of the receiver. It turned out to be the same music WHRB was playing, so the Cliffie hastened to call the men who live under Mem Hall. "Do you know," she said, "that I can hear WHRB on my telephone?" The WHRB man did not know this, but he was equal to the occasion: "Turn on your radio and you can hear us even better," he retorted...