WWUH is a non-commercial
radio station
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licensed to the
University of Hartford
The University of Hartford (UHart) is a private university in West Hartford, Connecticut, United States. Its main campus extends into neighboring Hartford and Bloomfield. It enrolled approximately 6,000 undergraduate and graduate students as ...
in
West Hartford, Connecticut
West Hartford is a town in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States, west of downtown Hartford, Connecticut, Hartford. The town is part of the Capitol Planning Region, Connecticut, Capitol Planning Region. The population was 64,083 at the 20 ...
, United States. The station was started on July 15, 1968, and has a public alternative radio format.
WWUH operates on 91.3 MHz from a tower site in
Avon, Connecticut
Avon ( ) is a town in the Farmington Valley region of the Capitol Planning Region, Connecticut, United States. As of 2020, the town had a population of 19,795.
History
At the end of the last Ice Age, 12,400 years BP of the Younger Dryas, nom ...
, but their programming is also rebroadcast on
WDJW (89.7 FM) in
Somers, Connecticut
Somers ( ) is a town in Tolland County, Connecticut, United States. The town is part of the Capitol Planning Region. The population was 10,255 at the 2020 census. The town center is listed by the U.S. Census Bureau as a census-designated plac ...
. In addition, WWUH was the first station in the state of
Connecticut
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to webcast on a regular basis via its website. WWUH has an extensive music library consisting of close to 140,000 LPs and CDs.
The station is dedicated as "The
Louis K. Roth Memorial Station":
"Prior to 1968, Louis K. Roth, a generous Regent of the University, had told the President of the University of Hartford that he would finance the radio station. Mr. Roth passed away before we got things rolling, but his family still came to us with a check for $40,000. While serious consideration was given to changing the station's call letters to WLKR, we instead renamed the radio station the Lewis K. Roth Memorial radio station, and by the time I graduated in 1970, we'd built a complete stereo radio station and still had $14,000 of Mr. Roth's grant left."[WWUH: History](_blank)
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Notable alumni
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Mike Crispino (1980), Sports Commentator
See also
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Campus radio
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Folk Next Door
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List of college radio stations in the United States
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List of community radio stations in the United States
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* Full-power community stations
* Low-pow ...
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WDJW
References
External links
WWUH website*
WWUH history
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