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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...
...moment in WHRB’s development came in 1957, when the station won a license...
...difficult to operate, and we understood that the heyday for carrier current distribution was over,” says William R. Malone ’58, a former engineer for WHRB and a current trustee of the station. “A lot of the wiring was from the World War II era and the AC power lines were a very unfriendly environment for radio frequency signals...
...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...
...repertoire. “We were operating at low financial margin, so we could broadcast things that we liked as opposed to those that would make it easier to sell advertising,” Menninger recalls. “I can’t believe that the station hasn’t changed to reflect a wider listening audience, but then students tend to be at the leading edge of good ideas. I’m sure I must have left before this honeymoon is over...