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...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...
Even before the official date, Harvard Radio existed, founded in 1941 as a component of The Harvard Crimson before a split in 1943 created "The Harvard Voice" or WHRV radio...
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...
...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...
After V-J Day, advertisers had to budget their funds more tightly, and IBS's power to attract customers went into a sharp decline. In 1947, five member stations from the Ivy League--Dartmouth (WDBS), Harvard (then called WHRV), Pennsylvania (WXPN), Princeton (WPRU) and Yale (WYBC) seceded and formed a splinter group called the Ivy Network. Cornell joined later to bring the Network's roster up to its present number...