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WHRB?

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aerie

Given how much CC paid recently for WFNX, and given that college students tend to listen more to other media than to broadcast radio, I wonder if it's time for the WHRB organization to sell 95.3? Discuss!
 
I find this post interesting but I know WHRB will not be sold to Clear Channel at all, but it would be interesting to think about what Clear Channel would do with the station if they did buy it.

They've already tried out vareity....the Habbah. :p yuck ...really glad that got replaced.

Maybe a Country format to compete with WKLB, or an Oldies/Classic Hits station to compete with WROR, or (Alternative Rock) The Alt. Project, a iheart brand, like Evolution, to compete with WBOS.

They are already in a CHR/Hip Hop battle with Greater Media and CBS Radio. We have about 5 pop stations in Boston, I'd imagine they would go for a different format seeing that they already have WJMN and WXKS-FM. Alternative Rock, Rock, Oldies, or Country.
 
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Don't think they need $14 or $15 million. That $30billion is just the endowment, not even tuition/donation revenue.
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Technically, the station belongs to "Harvard Radio Broadcasting Co, Inc." a Massachusetts corporation. Now whether the stock in said corporation belongs entirely to Harvard University, or perhaps to the students who first incorporated the company (or their successors), I have no idea. The company was incorporated in 1951 when Harvard was still "the rich kids school" so it is entirely possible that students/parents incorporated the company as an entity separate from the University.
 
Since when is Harvard not the "rich kids school" anymore?

I must have missed the memo.
 
WHRB, pleeeease don't change. 'HRB has provided the best jazz, classical, rock, R&B and country "in the arear" for years and years. They are totally music-centric.
 
IIRC Only one of the Ivy League commercial FMs has entered into an agreement with an outside broadcaster: Yale's WYBC. I probably don't have to tell you what Harvard people think about Yale. And they didn't even sell the frequency, just did an LMA with Cox.
 
Very interesting that cefgw likes WHRB. I think I'm fairly open minded but find WHRB to be sooooo eccentric. I can't imagine who would listen?

You need a scorecard to figure out what's on when. Is it Classical? Is it Jazz? Is it something else? Who would know? The hosts I've heard seem to sound like they wish they were somewhere else. Or they're talking to only their circle of friends.

I suppose the University considers WHRB a public service and an outreach. But the station is too hip for the room. Brown University's WBRU actually has listeners and serves as Providence's Alternative Rock station. Yale University's WYBC also gets ratings and serves as New Haven's Urban AC station. Neither are my cup of tea but at least they aren't playing to a listenership of a few hundred devoted souls.
 
i would love to see cumulus come in and buy one of the stations in town, And turn into nash fm!!
 
tvradiogeek said:
i would love to see cumulus come in and buy one of the stations in town, And turn into nash fm!!
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''95.3 Nash FM'', that would be an interesting new station, hey if isn't Top 40#/Hip Hop/ Hot AC/ or Vareity, then it sounds good to me.
 
If Clear Channel is forced to dump 101.7 due to it's looming debt (as has been stated in several published reports), I could see several buyers:

(1) WHRB, to launch a second 24/7 analog service (i.e. turn 95.3 to 24/7 classical and run a hybrid format of jazz from 6 A.M.-6 P.M. and rock from 6 P.M. to 6 A.M. on 101.7).

(2) WGBH, to launch a 24/7 jazz station, which would allow it to drop the weekend jazz shows on 89.7.

(3) Maybe Entercom, to simulcast WRKO-680 (or to simulcast WAAF-107.3; with the 97.7 signal becoming the 'RKO simulcast).

(4) Or even Boston University, to use it as a 24/7 BBC World Service simulcast!
 
I can already see what brands that Clear Channel would use if they were buying the station:

95.3 The Alternative Project. - Alternative Rock

Oldies or Big 95.3 - Oldies

Rock 95.3 - since they originally had plans to change WHBA's format to "Rock 101.7", but instead they chose EDM.

I don't know about a clear channel country brand.
 
At Ivy League colleges it's common for radio stations to have commercial licenses held by non-profit organizations other than the colleges. WBUR (Brown), WVBR (Cornell), WHRB (Harvard), WPRB (Princeton), and WYBC (Yale) all follow this model. At Dartmouth, the college holds WFRD's commercial license, while Columbia's WKCR and Penn's WXPN are university-licensed non-comms (WXPN is a professionally-staffed NPR affiliate).

WHRB has been on the Boston FM dial for 56 years; it is not for sale. WHRB will be celebrating its 75th anniversary in 2015.
 
I too enjoy WHRB. And I can't see why anyone, in this era of increasingly nationalized radio, would want to see it replaced by some networked brand or national playlist. It's not as though there aren't plenty of options if you enjoy 300 songs and voicetracked talent. It's not only an unlikely fantasy, it's a pointless one.

Kudos to WHRB for keeping it eclectic.
 
Please Note- WHRB is not for sale, it is a very popular classical/jazz station, I'm very aware of their anniversary. We're saying if Clear Channel were to buy them, it's very unlikely that WHRB is going anywhere. These are mostly fictional predictions.

These are just predictions, not actual news. I myself listen to WHRB. WHRB could go on for years.
 
4CX1000A said:
WHRB has been on the Boston FM dial for 56 years; it is not for sale. WHRB will be celebrating its 75th anniversary in 2015.
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Care to have another go at the math? If WHRB has been around for 56 years and this is 2013, it will have been around for 58 years in 2015. It won't be celebrating its 75th anniversary until 2032. Does your strange math have anything to do with when WHRB started as a campus-limited carrier-current station and when it became an FM signal?

Or should we just assume that you must not have gone to Harvard?
 
WHRB first went on the air in 1940 as a campus-limited AM station (on 550, unless I misremember). It is the second oldest surviving student-operated station in the United States.
 
John MacCormack said:
Please Note- WHRB is not for sale, it is a very popular classical/jazz station, I'm very aware of their anniversary. We're saying if Clear Channel were to buy them, it's very unlikely that WHRB is going anywhere. These are mostly fictional predictions.

These are just predictions, not actual news. I myself listen to WHRB. WHRB could go on for years.
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these are just idea nothing to hurt anyone or thing.
 
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