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| City of license | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
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| Broadcast area | Delaware Valley |
| Branding | WHYY 91 FM or 91 FM |
| Slogan | "Radio That's Worth Your Time" |
| Frequency | 90.9 (MHz) (Also on HD Radio) 90.9 HD-2 for Arts & Info Service |
| First air date | December 14, 1954 |
| Format | Public affairs/News/Talk |
| ERP | 13,500 watts |
| HAAT | 280 meters |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 72336 |
| Callsign meaning | Wider Horizons for You and Yours |
| Former callsigns | WUHY (1966-1983) |
| Owner | WHYY, Inc. |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | whyy.org/91FM |
WHYY-FM (90.9 FM) is a National Public Radio member and serves the Delaware Valley area, which is the metro area of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Offices are located in Philadelphia and Wilmington, Delaware. Both the TV and FM transmitters are located in the Roxborough section of Philadelphia.
WHYY produces NPR: Fresh Air with Terry Gross, "Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane"[1] and "You Bet Your Garden", an organic gardening talk show.
WHYY Philadelphia also produces another NPR program, A Chef's Table, with host and chef Jim Coleman.
Controversy erupted in the Summer of 2007 when station CEO Bill Marrazzo was cited by the watchdog group Charity Navigator as the highest paid CEO in all of public broadcasting.
Popular Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Karen Heller called for a boycott of WHYY in an August 2007 column and in September 2007 an anonymous group of WHYY employees sent an open letter to Marrazzo, the Inquirer, the Philadelphia Daily News and Philadelphia magazine, accusing him of "a serious lack of understanding when it comes to creating ... a healthy workplace" and assailing his salary as "excessive and inappropriate." The five-page letter concluded with a call for Marrazzo to resign.[2][3]
See also
References
- ^ Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane, whyy.org
- ^ "Letter to the CEO". Philadelphia City Paper. 2007-09-05. http://www.citypaper.net/blogs/clog/2007/09/05/letter-to-the-ceo/. Retrieved on 2008-02-24.
- ^ Volk, Steve (2007-10-05). "Dead Air". Philadelphia Magazine. http://www.phillymag.com/articles/dead_air/. Retrieved on 2008-02-24.
External links
- WHYY website
- Query the FCC's FM station database for WHYY
- Radio Locator information on WHYY
- Query Arbitron's FM station database for WHYY
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