WHYY-FM
WHYY-FM | |
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Radio station | |
Program type | News & Culture |
reception | analog , terrestrial & web radio |
Reception area | Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , USA |
Start of transmission | 1954 |
Broadcaster | WHYY Inc. |
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WHYY-FM (91 FM Public Radio) is a network broadcaster within National Public Radio based in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania . It is the flagship station for National Public Radio in Pennsylvania and serves the Delaware Valley metropolitan area . The studios are located in the Independence Mall in central Philadelphia, while the transmitter is in Roxborough . WHYY transmits on 90.1 MHz with 13.5 kW and belongs to WHYY Inc. A number of other stations simulcast the program in New Jersey .
WHYY produces the weekly interview program Fresh Air, which runs on the National Public Radio network , among others .
history
WHYY went on the air on October 20, 1954. The group was founded by a group of committed citizens led by W. Laurence LePage, President of the Franklin Institute . The group was able to radio group Westinghouse Radio, Inc . convince to donate the equipment for a complete VHF radio station with an educational mandate. The callsign WHYY was interpreted as "Wider Horizons for You and Yours" . In the evenings, WHYY broadcast cultural and educational programs for the people of the Philadelphia metropolitan area, making it the city's first educational station.
After the sister television station WHYY-TV was licensed on channel 12 in Wilmington , Delaware , the FCC forced the radio station to change its callsign in 1963 : from then on it broadcast as WUHY . The station got the original callsign WHYY back in 1983.
WHYY was a founding member of National Public Radio in 1970 and one of the 90 stations that broadcast the first All Things Considered broadcast.
In-house productions
- NPR: Fresh Air with Terry Gross , a weekly magazine on contemporary arts and other art topics. One of the most popular programs on the public radio network. The show won the Peabody Award . More than 450 NPR stations in the USA and Europe broadcast the program via the World Radio Network . The show started as a local WHYY show in 1975 and has been broadcast across the US since 1987.
- In The Pulse it comes to health, science and Innovationenin the region of Philadelphia.
swell
- ^ WHYY-FM 90.9 MHz Radio Station Information. In: radio-locator.com. Retrieved August 29, 2016 .
- ^ History of Philadelphia radio station 90.9 WHYY. In: www.phillyradioarchives.com. Retrieved January 17, 2017 .
- ↑ http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5013