Talk:WHUR-FM

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BetacommandBot (talk) 08:39, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

I note that in this article it says that from the time Howard acquired WHUR until the 1990s it followed a jazz format, and then switched to an Urban Contemporary format. This can't be true, since when I moved to DC in 1984, WHUR was already playing Urban Contemporary and had the features that it would have until today, including the Quiet Storm, then with Melvin Lindsay. Their slogan then was "Rap and scratch and funk are fine, but all the time?  Give me a break!" which reflected a sense of people in their demographic were uneasy with the still young hip hop movement in music and did not want to hear that music all the time. WHUR obliged them and never played it.

During that time WHUR was also the number one most listened to station in the DC area, as reported weekly in the Washington Post, and it held that place quite steadily, as I recall, through most of the 80s until WPGC and WKYS managed to split the Urban demographic enough to push WHUR out. Beepsie (talk) 02:10, 29 February 2008 (UTC)