WHUR-FM

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**WHUR-FM**

Broadcast area	Washington, D.C.
Branding	"96.3 WHUR"
Slogan	Sounds Like Washington
First air date	1940s
Frequency	96.3(MHz)
Format	Urban Adult Contemporary
ERP	16,500 watts
Class	B (Non-commercial)
Callsign meaning	We're Howard University Radio
Owner	Howard University
Website	www.whur.com/

"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 the The Quiet Storm program weeknights beginning at 7:30 PM. In 2005, it also began broadcasting in IBOC digital radio, using the HD Radio system from iBiquity.

1 History
2 Current Line-Up
3 Station Management
4 External link

[edit] History

96.3 FM began back in the 1940s as Rockville Md. based 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 AM station switched to top 40 format and took the FM along in the simulcast was one of Washington's most popular stations.Station owners The Washington Post Company later moved WINX-FM to Washington DC and paired it with their established WTOP-AM and the calls were changed to WTOP-FM.For awhile the station broadcast CBS Radio's early seventies "Young Sound" programming.

The Washington Post Companylater 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 stations in the market, right behind WPGC-FM. Also that year, WHUR became the Washington radio and flagship 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 #2 rated station in the market behind WPGC-FM.

WHUR is often credited with creating the Quiet Storm format of mellow, rhythm and blues/soul music, smooth jazz and love songs often played at night on many radio stations. The format was said to have originated when then-intern Melvin Lindsey played a soothing string of songs during a particularly bad storm in the mid-1970's, even as power was cut to most of the other radio stations in the Washington, DC area.

[edit] Current Line-Up

The Steve Harvey Morning Show with Shirley Strawberry, Carla Ferrell, 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

Saturdays

Audrey Chapman (relationship talk)
The Time Tunnel with Mr. "C" (oldies)

Sundays

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