WHYY-FM

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WHYY-FM
Radio station
Program type News & Culture
reception analog , terrestrial & web radio
Reception area Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , USA
Start of transmission 1954
Broadcaster WHYY Inc.
List of radio stations
Website

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

Entrance to the WHYY Building on 6th Street, across from Independence Mall and the National Constitution Center

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.

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  1. ^ WHYY-FM 90.9 MHz Radio Station Information. In: radio-locator.com. Retrieved August 29, 2016 .
  2. ^ History of Philadelphia radio station 90.9 WHYY. In: www.phillyradioarchives.com. Retrieved January 17, 2017 .
  3. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5013