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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Most radio stations won't experiment. They only play what sells," comments Falk. One of the station's nine rock dj's, Falk says WHRB has helped launch the careers of many local groups by giving them airtime. As examples, he cites The Tweeds and Private Lightning...
From a small carrier-current station started in the '40's, WHRB has grown impressively in wattage and facilities. Privately run, WHRB has an annual budget of over $15,000 and a broadcast range of 3000 watts--ten times that of the average college radio station, says station manager Bill Barol '79. Completely self-supporting, WHRB finances itself through advertising revenues, though Barol notes ruefully, "We haven't seen any profits in a long time." The station generally breaks even...
WHRB's estimated audience is difficult to gauge. Barol says the station distributes 15,000 program guides every other month, and that that figure represents only about one-third of the actual listenership...
...microphones give a notion of what it must have been like back in the '40s, when a couple of electronically-minded Harvard students founded the station. Barol narrates with gusto stories from the station's past...
...northeastern border that would be strong enough to worry the Israelis into making concessions, but not threatening enough to provoke an Israeli pre-emptive strike. Iraq is the Arab world's second largest oil producer (after Saudi Arabia) and has a large, Soviet-supplied army. It would like to station some of its forces in Syrian territory opposite the Israeli border, but after their years of quarreling with the Iraqis, the Syrians are reluctant to accept such an arrangement. According to Iraqi sources, the new agreement will merely permit Iraqi troops to move into Syria "whenever they are needed...