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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...
...anniversary celebrates the station's 50 year history. WHRB began in 1940 as part of The Harvard Crimson with the call letters WHCN and was broadcast only on the Harvard campus, said station members. The station broke ties with the student newspaper in 1947, and, a decade later, adopted its current call letters and frequency, said Studio Engineer Steven A. Hoey...
...December 2, 1940, the station began broadcasting through the electrical light wires as WHCN, the Harvard Crimson Network. The signal traveled along wires and could be picked up by radios located within a few yards of the University's electrical system. The signal quality improved and the transmissions could be contained within the University...
...WHCN was run separately from The Crimson by 1942, when it paid back the paper's investment and became independent as WHRV, the Harvard Radio Voice, known as "The Listening Habit of America's First University," according to David R. Elliott '64, the station's unofficial archivist...
...history of student broadcasting in Ivy League schools is a relatively brief one. Brown's WBRU was the first college radio station in America, and began broadcasting activities in the spring of 1940. Within a year, Harvard followed suit with WHCN (The Harvard CRIMSON Network). These two stations were among the original members of the first college network--IBS (Intercollegiate Broadcasting System), founded by two young Brown alumni. David Frost and George Abraham, who had set up WBRU while undergraduates...