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Originally founded as WHCN (Harvard Crimson Network) in 1940, the station was managed by undergraduate Kenneth I. Richter ’43 and several of his friends from the ham radio club. According to Holmes, WHCN is the oldest continuously running college radio station in the country. Despite being initially funded by The Crimson, the radio station soon changed its name to WHRV (Harvard Radio Voice) and became a self-sufficient entity. In 1957, the station switched from closed-channel to open-channel, opening up its broadcasting to the surrounding Boston area...
...past seventy years, the station has undergone one more name change, as well as a few shifts in location, including a move from Memorial Hall to the basement of Pennypacker Hall in 1994. A year later, it repositioned its broadcast signal from the Holyoke Center to the top of One Financial Center in downtown Boston...
WHRB boasts a number of prestigious alumni, including Hartford Gunn ’48 of Public Broadcasting Station, Daniel Raviv ’76 of Columbia Broadcasting System News, Chris Wallace ’69 of Fox News, and Alex Ross ’90 of The New Yorker. Hip-hop magazine The Source was also founded out of the hip-hop department of WHRB...
...weekend, it celebrated its annual Record Hospital Fest, a two-night extravaganza featuring performances by over a dozen East Coast bands that draws ghosts from all over the nation. Later this month, WHRB will host its semi-annual radio “orgies,” during which the station plays a continuous block of programming devoted solely to one artist, time period, or concept...
...those undergraduates involved in WHRB, one of the most important aspects of their college experiences has been the friendships formed from working in the radio station. When Megan E. Popkin ’11, one of the music directors for Record Hospital, reflects upon her experience at WHRB, she concludes that “everyone is doing this because they love it. They love the community and they love the people here... I think I’ve learned the most here than I’ve learned anywhere at Harvard... It’s hard to imagine Harvard without...