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...doesn’t seem like the honeymoon has ended just yet. WHRB continues to fill a unique niche in the Boston-area music scene: although classical music and opera claim the most airtime, the station also plays an eclectic mix that includes jazz, underground rock, and hip hop. WHRB even has a “Hillbilly Music” program that has been a fixture on Saturday mornings for nearly five decades...
...although the WHRB of 1957 and its 2007 counterpart have a lot in common, some things have changed with time: the marathon bridge games that were a fixture of life inside the station in 1957 have turned into intense rounds of Risk, and the studio has moved to Pennypacker from its original home in Dudley Hall...
...November of 1999 the station increased its accessibility yet again and began streaming online courtesy of WarpRadio, which gave WHRB free streaming in exchange for four 60-second advertisements per day. Then-President Alexandra J. McCormack ’00 told The Crimson that the new stream served to further WHRB’s overall goal: reaching a global audience...
...programs may serve this goal by satisfying tastes that aren’t so well-represented on the airwaves, the majority of its content isn’t aimed at its own student body anymore. “I guess we’re not a typical college station,” WHRB President Kimberly E. Gittleson ’08 says, “but nearly every organization at Harvard is a little esoteric.” Gittleson, who is also an associate Crimson magazine editor, points out that WHRB continues to acknowledge its original Harvard audience?...
...says Frederick S. Hird ’57, a former WHRBie who listens to the online stream. Yet WHRB’s wide-ranging selection leaves little room for more popular music. Perhaps in an effort to go global, WHRB has transformed from the Harvard-only station it was 50 years ago to one that mostly serves listeners outside Harvard’s gates. But whatever philosophy guides its programming today, WHRB’s global reach began 50 years ago with a switch from tunnels to towers...