WHRB?

[reelyreal]

Replace? No. Compete? Yes. I think listeners are willing to pay for content if it means they get a customizable product with limited to no commercial interruption.

I think the media landscape will remain very diverse with many options for years to come. OTA broadcasting isn't going anywhere, and neither is mobile streaming. I think the options are amazing for the consumer and lousy for the operators.

 

[mgpt6]

AM stations in the long run need to go to FM .Thanks to regulators and receiver manufactures AM radio has a very poor audio quality compared to 30 years ago. I would like to see better use of translators and FM HD Radio. AM HD Radio stinks and should be trashed. Ibuity has to radically lower its fees. Have fee included in the purchase of the HD exciter. Bob's WJIB is a good and needed format that I hope gets to FM in some way.

 

[HHH]

I enjoy WHRB which, by the way, I can hear quite clearly when I spend an occasional summer weekend in Provincetown.

Eccentric? So what. Not every store in the world has to be a Wal-Mart.

The only suggestion I might have to them would be to swap the classic and jazz blocks, with classical in the morning and jazz in the afternoons. Seems like that is more attuned to the rhythms of the day.

And I do believe that CBS, when they owned the original WEEI (590 and 103.3) were ready to donate the original WEEI-FM tower in Malden to WHRB, but they reportedly didn't want it.

 

[inorm99]

Gnash FM

i would love to see cumulus come in and buy one of the stations in town, And turn into nash fm!!

 

[4CX1000A]

And I do believe that CBS, when they owned the original WEEI (590 and 103.3) were ready to donate the original WEEI-FM tower in Malden to WHRB, but they reportedly didn't want it.

Medford. They gave it to Harvard University not WHRB. Harvard was unwilling to lease tower space to WHRB at a rate the station could afford.

 

[Eli Polonsky]

And I do believe that CBS, when they owned the original WEEI (590 and 103.3) were ready to donate the original WEEI-FM tower in Malden to WHRB, but they reportedly didn't want it.

Medford. They gave it to Harvard University not WHRB. Harvard was unwilling to lease tower space to WHRB at a rate the station could afford.

So, what did Harvard end up doing with it? Did they broadcast anything from it? Their building maintenance dispatch or anything like that? I remember back in the '70s that could be heard over about half the state on a scanner, well past Worcester, even into southern NH and northern RI.

 

[Fenway1912]

And I do believe that CBS, when they owned the original WEEI (590 and 103.3) were ready to donate the original WEEI-FM tower in Malden to WHRB, but they reportedly didn't want it.

Medford. They gave it to Harvard University not WHRB. Harvard was unwilling to lease tower space to WHRB at a rate the station could afford.

So, what did Harvard end up doing with it? Did they broadcast anything from it? Their building maintenance dispatch or anything like that? I remember back in the '70s that could be heard over about half the state on a scanner, well past Worcester, even into southern NH and northern RI.

Cambridge Yellow Cab wound up there as well as a couple of other local cab companies. HUPD was there as well.

I have no idea where WHRB had it's transmitter before Holyoke Center was built.

 

[4CX1000A]

WHRB's antenna was on the roof of Dudley Hall, one of the buildings that would be razed to make room for Holyoke Center. The studios were in the basement of the same building, whose address was 16 Dunster Street.

 

[John MacCormack]

Look I get why people on this topic are upset about WHRB. It's a station that you've grown up listening to, It's a station you have all enjoyed, we were just saying ''IF'' the station were to be sold, It is very unlikely that Harvard would sell the station, but think about this I was a WFNX listener for many years and I didn't see the sale to Clear Channel coming. On the day Mindich made the announcement about selling WFNX, I was sad and shocked because I grow up listening to the station, but if i was on this forum in 2005 and someone told me that WFNX was going to sold, I would say the exact same thing, ''They'll never sell'', ''Sure we lost WFNX in Providence, but they'll make a comeback''. I couldn't see it happening back then,it would just sound ridiculous to me, but things happen in time.

We can't look into the future, but we can make predictions (Guesses), their not real, but who knows, it could happen, or maybe it will never happen, i'm just saying that I didn't see the sale of WFNX to Clear Channel coming.

Plus people on this topic had made very good points on why Clear Channel wouldn't buy the station, and i've got to tell you all after listening to iHeart radio on my iPad, it is a very bitter and terrible playlist...I swear I have listened to the same playlist of songs for two weeks, as if they were stunting. So yes, I do enjoy local radio stations more, over Clear Channel's take on local radio. I apologize if I have rattled anyone up on this topic, these are just guesses that I made.

 

[Fenway1912]

WHRB's antenna was on the roof of Dudley Hall, one of the buildings that would be razed to make room for Holyoke Center. The studios were in the basement of the same building, whose address was 16 Dunster Street.

I know in the the late 60's their studios were located in a building on an alley off of Mt. Auburn St. I want to say Claverly Hall.