WJHU
| Broadcast area | Baltimore, MD |
|---|---|
| Slogan | We Do What We Want |
| Frequency | Internet |
| First air date | 1945 |
| Format | College radio |
| Callsign meaning | W Johns Hopkins University |
| Owner | Johns Hopkins University |
| Website | wjhuradio.org |
WJHU is a radio station based in Baltimore, Maryland. The Johns Hopkins University owns the station, a community radio station with student volunteers, who are mainly on-air deejays and other program hosts. Programming blocks are divided into formats, dealing mostly with music, sports and cultural life: classical, dance, folk, jazz, public affairs, sports, rap, and rock formats — along with a few specialty shows outside any of the formats. Its studios are located on the Homewood campus.
WJHU had its antecedents in the mid-1940s with an informal broadcast from Levering Hall on the Homewood campus. In the early 1950s the campus radio station moved into the basement of the Alumni Memorial Residences II (AMR II), where it would stay for the next thirty years. WJHU transmitted on the 830 AM frequency in the dormitories via carrier current (a low-wattage transmission using the wiring in buildings).
By the mid-1970s, the station operated with students running 3-hour shows on a 24/7 programming schedule. The station also carried away Johns Hopkins lacrosse games with student announcers. A long-time goal of the station was to transition to being an actual broadcast station on FM (which was the ostensible reason for requiring all staff to obtain a U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) 3rd class operator's license).
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