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Thursday, August 4, 2011
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WHFS Bethesda MD (Washington DC)
WILLIAM A TYNAN writes: "In 1961, enthusiasm had led me, with my friend Bob Carpenter, W3OTC, to apply for and receive a construction permit for ... Our station. WHFS hit the air in November 1961.
WHFS-FM "High Fidelity Stereo" was "Washington's High Fidelity Station". WHFS began broadcasting on November 11, 1961, on a frequency of 102.3 FM in Bethesda, Maryland. It was the first station in the Washington, DC, area to broadcast in FM-stereo; thus its call sign stood for High Fidelity Stereo. It was originally located in a 20 × 20-foot space in the basement of the Bethesda Medical Building on Wisconsin Avenue with antenna on the roof. Its original format was a combination of MOR and classical, with jazz after 10 p.m. The original owners were considerably underfunded, and the station was sold in 1963. Variety programming included Folk Music with Dick Cerri and Classical music with Bill Cerri. Marlin R. Taylor, the first GM went on to Philadelphia in the early '60's to develop a beautiful music format on highly sucessful WDVR...WJIB in Boston, then to WRFM, NYC. This studio photo of Sunday evening shift, classical music host RACampbell.
Wikipedia History of the station
WHFS-FM "High Fidelity Stereo" was "Washington's High Fidelity Station". WHFS began broadcasting on November 11, 1961, on a frequency of 102.3 FM in Bethesda, Maryland. It was the first station in the Washington, DC, area to broadcast in FM-stereo; thus its call sign stood for High Fidelity Stereo. It was originally located in a 20 × 20-foot space in the basement of the Bethesda Medical Building on Wisconsin Avenue with antenna on the roof. Its original format was a combination of MOR and classical, with jazz after 10 p.m. The original owners were considerably underfunded, and the station was sold in 1963. Variety programming included Folk Music with Dick Cerri and Classical music with Bill Cerri. Marlin R. Taylor, the first GM went on to Philadelphia in the early '60's to develop a beautiful music format on highly sucessful WDVR...WJIB in Boston, then to WRFM, NYC. This studio photo of Sunday evening shift, classical music host RACampbell.
Wikipedia History of the station
Thursday, June 16, 2011
WDVR, PHILADELPHIA, PA
WDVR-FM, 101.1, began broadcasting on 13 May 1963 with 24 hours of orchestral music in new multiplex FM Stereo, first in Philadelphia. Newscasts were heard briefly every three hours recorded first by the board operators then played back on the air. Besides news, IDs, promos and a few PSA's there was little talk as the station advertised and delivered over 55 minutes of music each hour. Heavy on promotion, The original dial cards, posters, card holders, stationery, coverage maps and station forms were designed, created, typeset, printed by 'Ambler Business Forms'. Initial advertisers were John B. White Ford and Philco which was the employer of station owner and engineer, David Kurtz. Underwriting style commercials were used for overnight "Night Sounds in Stereo". Within a few months it became the highest rated FM station in the city. Later the first FM station in the nation to bill over 1 million dollars. Voices in the beginning were announcer/operators Lee Kramer, Frank Edwards, Joaquin Bowman, Dave Shayer, Richard Franklin and Terry Wickham. The voice of Alan Campbell, of Upper Darby, Pa., was recorded and heard in afternoons and evenings. He was with WBAL-AM, Baltimore, MD in the early 1960's working with the beautiful music format created by Art Wander. Campbell worked with WHFS-FM (Bethesda, MD) Manager, Marlin Taylor, before Taylor went to Philadelphia to plan the programming and staff for the new WDVR-FM. Sales and promotions were successfully implemented by Jerry Lee who came to Philly from Baltimore. As General Manager he became partner and eventually sole owner. Today, still, the only major market individually owned station.
phillyradioarchives.com WDVR history aka WBEB
Hear a May, 1963 Station liner, one of a series of audio IDs and promos
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