WHUR-FM
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"96.3 WHUR" is an Urban Adult Contemporary radio station that serves the Washington D.C. area. WHUR is licensed to Washington, D.C. and is owned by Howard University. Also, the staff of the station mentors the students of the university's school of communications. WHUR is also the home of the original "Quiet Storm", which loyal D.C. listeners have rated number one in the evening since 1976. Jeff Brown hosts this program weeknights beginning at 7:30 PM. In 2005, it also began broadcasting in IBOC digital radio, using the HD Radio system from iBiquity.
History
96.3 FM began back in the 1940s as WINX, as a FM simulcast of WINX 1600AM. It had the slogan, "Sounds like Washington", to reflect the station's local ownership. WINX was originally owned by the Washington Post during the 1940s and early 1950s. United Broadcasting Corporation bought the station in the 1950s and moved the station 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 fifteeen years in the future, the station switched to top 40 format and was one of Washington's most popular stations.The Washington Post Company donated radio station WTOP-FM to Howard University "to stimulate the intellectual and cultural life of the whole community and to train more people for the communications industry." On December 6, 1971, with the new call letters WHUR-FM, the station became the first under black management to broadcast in the Washington metropolitan area. WHUR became a jazz-formatted radio station which it remained until the 1990s when it switched to an Urban Contemporary format.
By 1995, WHUR became the one of the highest rated radio station's in the market, right behind WPGC-FM. Also that year, WHUR became the Washington radio affiliate of the syndicated Tom Joyner Morning Show (TJMS). However, in 1999, WHUR decided to produce its own locally-based morning drive show. The station did not renew its syndication contract with the TJMS, thus ending a four-year relationship with the show. This however, has somewhat affected the station's dominance over rival WMMJ, which picked up the syndication rights to TJMS, it remains in the top 5 rated stations but currently as the #3 rated station in the market behind WMMJ & WPGC-FM.
Current Line-Up
- The Steve Harvey Morning Show with Jacque Reid, Nephew Tommy (Thomas Miles) and Ann Tripp 6-10AM
- Cafe' 96 with Triscina Grey 10AM-3PM
- Love, Lust, & Lies with Michael Baisden 3-7PM
- The Quiet Storm with Jeff Brown 7PM-Midnight
- The Nightlife with Joe Midnight-6AM
- Audrey Chapman (relationship talk)
- The Time Tunnel with Mr. "C" (oldies)
- The Caribbean Experience with John Blake (Reggae, Calypso, Soca) Midnight-6AM
- Sunday Gospel with Patrick Ellis and Jacquie Gales-Webb 6AM- 2PM
- D.C. Inspirations with Lorna Newton 2-7PM
- The Weekend Quiet Storm with Kevin James 7PM-Midnight
Station Management
- General Manager Jim Watkins
- Gen. Sales Manager Jeanette Tyce
- Program Director Dave Dickinson
- Music Director Traci LaTrelle
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