Word: whrb
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...February 1, 1951, WHRV was incorporated as Harvard Radio Broadcasting, Inc. The same day, the station inaugurated new call letters and began transmitting as WHRB...
...into difficulties. "The chief problem was a legal one--the FCC didn't want a bunch of kids who changed every two years to be responsible for a radio station that broadcast rather widely across the Boston area," says Wyss. But with the help of a number of WHRB graduates who worked for the FCC, the station was given an FM frequency...
Another station donated a 500-watt transmitter and on May 17, 1957, WHRB began broadcasting all over the Boston area. "We would get cards from people who had heard a 'strange signal' as far away as 100 miles west of us. It forced the station to become much more professional and to mature much more quickly," says Wyss...
...station still aired mainly classical music, but also played jazz, opera, and newly popular folk music. WHRB also concentrated on its news programs, just at a time when inexpensive portable tape recorders were being introduced. For the first time, reporters could play tapes of events or interviews in addition to describing what had occurred...
When President-elect John F. Kennedy '40 came to Harvard in early 1961, WHRB news director James F. Flug '60 managed to be the only reporter to interview him that day, by talking to him in his limousine. As a result, Flug was the first reporter to find out about Kennedy's plans for starting the Peace Corps...