WHUR-FM

WHUR-FM
Broadcast areaWashington metropolitan area
Frequency96.3 MHz (HD Radio)
RDS
  • PI: 693d
  • PTY: R&B
  • RT: Artist-Title
Branding96.3 WHUR
Programming
LanguageEnglish
FormatUrban adult contemporary
Subchannels
Affiliations
Ownership
OwnerHoward University
WHUT-TV
History
First air date
  • 1939 (1939) (W3XO experimental)
  • September 1946 (1946-09)
Former call signs
  • W3XO (1939–1946)
  • WINX-FM (1946–1949)
  • WTOP-FM (1949–1971)
Former frequencies
  • 43.2 MHz (1939–1947)
  • 44.7 MHz (1947)
  • 92.9 MHz (1946–1947)
Call sign meaning
Howard University Radio
Technical information
Facility ID65707
ClassB (Non-commercial)
ERP16,500 watts
HAAT244 meters (801 ft)
Transmitter coordinates
38°57′01″N 77°04′46″W / 38.950389°N 77.079417°W / 38.950389; -77.079417
TranslatorHD2: 98.3 W252DC (Reston, Virginia)
Links
Webcast
Website

WHUR-FM (96.3 MHz) is an urban adult contemporary commercial FM radio station that is licensed to Washington, D.C., and serving the Washington metropolitan area. It is owned and operated by Howard University, making it one of the few commercial radio stations in the United States to be owned by a college or university, as well as being the only independent, locally owned station in the Washington, D.C., area. Staff members of the station mentor the students of the university's school of communications. The studios are located inside building number 49 (the C. B. Powell Building) on campus in its Lower Quad portion on Bryant Street NW, and the transmitter tower is based in the Tenleytown neighborhood. It is also co-owned with its television partner, WHUT-TV, one of D.C.'s PBS affiliates.

WHUR is also the home of the original Quiet Storm program, which longtime D.C. listeners have rated number one in the evening since 1976, and which spawned the namesake music genre that now airs on many radio stations across the United States. In 2005, it also began broadcasting in IBOC digital radio, using the HD Radio system from iBiquity.