WHCM

Last updated
WHCM
City Palatine, Illinois
Frequency 88.3 MHz
BrandingHarper Radio
Programming
Format College radio
Ownership
Owner William Rainey Harper College
History
First air date
2002 (on air)
Technical information
Licensing authority
 FCC
Facility ID 163899
Class A
ERP 100 watts
HAAT 17.1 meters (56 ft)
Transmitter coordinates
 42°4′54″N88°4′23″W / 42.08167°N 88.07306°W / 42.08167; -88.07306 Coordinates: 42°4′54″N88°4′23″W / 42.08167°N 88.07306°W / 42.08167; -88.07306
Links
Public license information
Profile
LMS
Webcast Listen live
Website www.harperradio.com

WHCM (88.3 FM) is a student-run campus radio station at William Rainey Harper College in Palatine, Illinois. [1] WHCM offers freeform music, news, talk and public affairs programming 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. WHCM is part of the college's Division of Liberal Arts and Department of Communication Arts.

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History

After seven years, the Harper College application for a new FM station in Palatine was approved by the FCC on November 6, 2000, with a license to cover filed in December 2002. The station, however, had broadcast on campus prior to going on air. WHCM was to share time with Arlington Heights-licensed WCLR, originally to be owned by the Church of Christian Liberty but sold to the Educational Media Foundation before going on air. WHCM operated Monday through Thursday during the school year, with WCLR allotted Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays, and full-time during school breaks. [2]

In March 1998, while the station was only broadcast to the student lounge and cafeteria, it was shut down for a week by a staff administrator for "music choices, volume control, and 'lewd' comments by disc jockeys." It began broadcasting again on March 25, after students agreed to adopt a new contract, and to keep their office neat. [3]

On May 17, 2017, EMF and Harper College reached an agreement in 2017 by which EMF would surrender the license for WCLR to allow WHCM to go full-time on 88.3 MHz. [4] Harper College paid $13,600, representing EMF's outstanding obligation on the WCLR tower lease, and up to $5,000 in EMF's legal fees. WHCM went full-time on June 29, 2017.

On October 1, 2019, WHCM added a Radio Data System (RDS) to identify song and artist, and upgraded their streaming encoder to improve sound quality.

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References

  1. ↑ "Harper College WHCM page". Harper College.
  2. ↑ BAPED-20030617ABV Asset Purchase Agreement, WCLR
  3. ↑ "Arlington Heights Daily Herald, March 26, 1998, p. 15". Arlington Heights Daily Herald.
  4. ↑ BMLED-20170530ABT License Modification, End Time Share Agreement - WHCM
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