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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...
...years after the station’s inception, only Harvard buildings had access to WHRB, via wiring threaded through the system of steam tunnels beneath the campus. Along with disc jockeys and announcers, WHRB’s membership included a board of student engineers who spent much of their time navigating the intricate tunnel system and making sure the network was running smoothly...
...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...
...formed a band right there, coming out of Sever Hall.”The band Rudder and Rice formed, however, was not the one which would later lead them to indie glory and critical renown. Both were members of Record Hospital, the underground rock department of Harvard radio station WHRB, and their first band accordingly had a rougher edge. “We were called the Pissed Officers,” Rudder explains. “We were sort of punk and we played around campus.”It wasn’t until after graduation that Rice...