Happy 40th anniversary to WHRW

[IHearRumors]

WHRW's first broadcast was on February 4, 1966 - forty years ago today.  Congratulations to everyone who has helped to keep it lit.

[DowntownHazleton]

> WHRW's first broadcast was on February 4, 1966 - forty years
> ago today.  Congratulations to everyone who has helped to
> keep it lit.
>
WHRW is an over-grown CB set for a bunch of spoiled children. I should be torn down and turned into a Dollar Store.

[The New Guy]

Aren't most college stations?


> >
> WHRW is an over-grown CB set for a bunch of spoiled
> children. I should be torn down and turned into a Dollar
> Store.
>

[IHearRumors]

> > WHRW's first broadcast was on February 4, 1966 - forty
> years
> > ago today.  Congratulations to everyone who has helped to
> > keep it lit.
> >
> WHRW is an over-grown CB set for a bunch of spoiled
> children. I should be torn down and turned into a Dollar
> Store.
>


If not for WHRW I'd be working in a different business, as would many others.  It's an incredible resource for SUNY students to learn about radio and music.  I for one am grateful that it's there.  That place changed my life.  During my four years there I met some of the most amazing people (students and community members) and got a complete schooling in many different styles of music, something that many folks on this board could probably use. WHRW was back then (in the mid-90s), and probably still is, the only place on the dial in Binghamton where you will ever hear anything even remotely spontaneous.  Sorry dude, I'll pass on your cookie cutter Clear Channel/Citadel formats.  Despite its flaws, WHRW was still the most interesting music station in the area, by far.

Yeah, so anyway, Moe Loogham smites you.

[DowntownHazleton]

> > > WHRW's first broadcast was on February 4, 1966 - forty
> > years
> > > ago today.  Congratulations to everyone who has helped
> to
> > > keep it lit.
> > >
> > WHRW is an over-grown CB set for a bunch of spoiled
> > children. I should be torn down and turned into a Dollar
> > Store.
> >
>
>
> If not for WHRW I'd be working in a different business, as
> would many others.  It's an incredible resource for SUNY
> students to learn about radio and music.  I for one am
> grateful that it's there.  That place changed my life.
> During my four years there I met some of the most amazing
> people (students and community members) and got a complete
> schooling in many different styles of music, something that
> many folks on this board could probably use. WHRW was back
> then (in the mid-90s), and probably still is, the only place
> on the dial in Binghamton where you will ever hear anything
> even remotely spontaneous.  Sorry dude, I'll pass on your
> cookie cutter Clear Channel/Citadel formats.  Despite its
> flaws, WHRW was still the most interesting music station in
> the area, by far.
>
> Yeah, so anyway, Moe Loogham smites you.
>
An incredible resource?? Please. It's a spring board for a bunch of over privledged brats from New York City to whine and cry and act up. WHRW contributes absolutely zero to the Binghamton area, but I suppose it helps keep the critters off the Binghamton streets.
And as far as "Moe" is concerned..Moe ain't here yet, and even when he gets here
things's AIN'T gonna be alright.

[Justin Case]

Happy Anniversary HRW...  40 years of the "Harper Radio Workshop" from Harper College... whoops SUNY B... errr I mean Binghamton University!

That said... I just want to comment on this statement...

>If not for WHRW I'd be working in a different business,
>as would many others. It's an incredible resource for
>SUNY students to learn about radio and music.

With no disrespect meant to you, but there isn't much about the radio business to learned anymore from the free will and free format forever mentality of what WHRW offers.  In my opinion that handicaps those truly interested in a career in media.  

That said, to ensure the survival of campus radio and to really make it a spring board; the University might want to consider absorbing the station into its business or communications departments.  Make it a class and let the students pick a format, and run it as a real station, to make them better prepared for a media world in which the more you know about operation, equipment, promotion and sales the better.  Stations like Z89 at Syracuse University, give the students autonomy with playlists and content, as long as they stick with a format and run it more like an actual station to learn both on-air skills and the off-air pressures of the ever changing and demanding media world.

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Can I sleep now?

[45rpm]

> WHRW's first broadcast was on February 4, 1966 - forty years
> ago today.  Congratulations to everyone who has helped to
> keep it lit.
>
Do you remember Roger Funk? he put in alot of time at WHRW,
and whatever happened to Roberta Haber, and Russ Novak?