Word: whcn
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...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...