WHUR
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| City | Washington, D.C. |
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| Broadcast area | Metro D.C. |
| Branding | "96.3 WHUR" |
| Slogan |
Sounds Like Washington The Adult Mix |
| Frequency | 96.3 MHz (also on HD Radio) 96.3 HD-2 for WHUR World 96.3 HD-3 for WHBC |
| First air date | 1940s |
| Format | Urban adult contemporary |
| ERP | 16,500 watts |
| HAAT | 244 meters |
| Class | B (Non-commercial) |
| Facility ID | 65707 |
| Callsign meaning |
Howard University Radio |
| Owner | Howard University |
| Sister stations | WHUT-TV |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | www.whur.com/ |
WHUR-FM, 96.3 FM, is an urban adult contemporary radio station that is licensed to Washington D.C., and serving the Metro D.C. area. It is owned and operated by Howard University, making it one of the few commercial radio stations in the United States to be owned by a college or university, as well as being the only independent, locally-owned station in the Washington, D.C. area. Also, the staff of the station mentors the students of the university's school of communications. The studios are located on campus in its Lower Quad portion, and the transmitter tower is based in the Tenleytown neighborhood. It is also co-owned with its television partner, WHUT-TV, one of D.C.'s PBS affiliates.
WHUR is also the home of the original Quiet Storm program, which longtime D.C. listeners have rated number one in the evening since 1976, and which spawned the namesake music genre that now airs on many radio stations across the United States. Jeff Brown hosts The Original Quiet Storm weeknights beginning at 7:30 p.m. In 2005, it also began broadcasting in IBOC digital radio, using the HD Radio system from iBiquity.
96.3 FM began back in the 1940s as Rockville, Maryland-based WINX, as an FM simulcast of WINX (1600). It had the slogan, "Sounds like Washington", to reflect the station's local ownership; and this slogan would be carried through until present-day format. WINX was originally owned by the Washington Post during the 1940s and early 1950s. The United Broadcasting Corporation bought the station in the 1950s and moved it from Washington to Rockville. During the 1950s, the station played a wide variety of music and was known as the "Rockville Music Library". In the early 1960s, with the popularity of the FM band still fifteen years away, the AM station switched to a top 40 format and took the FM along in the simulcast, which was one of Washington's most popular stations. The Post bought back WINX-FM and returned it to Washington DC, pairing it with their established WTOP-AM and the call was changed to WTOP-FM. For a while, the station broadcast CBS Radio's early seventies "Young Sound" programming.
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