Word: whrv
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
...WHRV's Baby...
...began in the summer of 1943 during the manpower shortage, when two female disc jockeys who had been "whirling the platters" for the Harvard Network's "Swing Out" program decided that 'Cliffedwellers needed a station of their own. At the start "R-squared" was WHRV's baby. Aside from a $25 good-will gift from the Annex board of hall presidents, the only assets the embryo enterprise possessed were duplicate records and rejuvenated equipment cast off by the Network...
Luclan C. Parlato, Adams House; Vice-pres. Debate Council; Freshman Union Committee; Publicity Director, Catholic Club; Secretary, Circolo Italiano; Harvard Glee Club; WHRV...