WCHC
Encyclopedia
WCHC is the student-run radio station
of College of the Holy Cross
in Worcester
, MA, its city of license and broadcasts at a frequency
of 88.1 MHz.
WCHC's official slogan is: "Worcester's Only Alternative Source"
The station is operated by mainly student DJs
who play a wide variety of music
, from rock to classical and modern, including talk shows about sports, politics, and modern events.
, basketball
, and ice hockey
, are broadast live on WCHC.
By the 1970s WCHC had begun broadcasting as a 10-watt FM station at the frequency 89.1.
By the 1990s WCHC moved to 88.1 FM to allow broadcasting at 100 watts.
On December 6, 2008, WCHC-FM celebrated its 60th Anniversary.
Radio station
Radio broadcasting is a one-way wireless transmission over radio waves intended to reach a wide audience. Stations can be linked in radio networks to broadcast a common radio format, either in broadcast syndication or simulcast or both...
of College of the Holy Cross
College of the Holy Cross
The College of the Holy Cross is an undergraduate Roman Catholic liberal arts college located in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA...
in Worcester
Worcester
The City of Worcester, commonly known as Worcester, , is a city and county town of Worcestershire in the West Midlands of England. Worcester is situated some southwest of Birmingham and north of Gloucester, and has an approximate population of 94,000 people. The River Severn runs through the...
, MA, its city of license and broadcasts at a frequency
Frequency
Frequency is the number of occurrences of a repeating event per unit time. It is also referred to as temporal frequency.The period is the duration of one cycle in a repeating event, so the period is the reciprocal of the frequency...
of 88.1 MHz.
WCHC's official slogan is: "Worcester's Only Alternative Source"
The station is operated by mainly student DJs
Disc jockey
A disc jockey, also known as DJ, is a person who selects and plays recorded music for an audience. Originally, "disc" referred to phonograph records, not the later Compact Discs. Today, the term includes all forms of music playback, no matter the medium.There are several types of disc jockeys...
who play a wide variety of music
Music
Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...
, from rock to classical and modern, including talk shows about sports, politics, and modern events.
Sports
All home games and a handful of away games of Holy Cross' Crusader sporting events, namely footballAmerican football
American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
, basketball
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
, and ice hockey
Ice hockey
Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...
, are broadast live on WCHC.
History
WCHC began operation on December 6, 1948, as a closed-circuit station, limited to the Holy Cross campus, available at 640 AM. The College started the station as a student activity under the guidance of (Rev.) John Kelly, S.J., who often broadcast from the studios himself as "Father Pseudo".By the 1970s WCHC had begun broadcasting as a 10-watt FM station at the frequency 89.1.
By the 1990s WCHC moved to 88.1 FM to allow broadcasting at 100 watts.
On December 6, 2008, WCHC-FM celebrated its 60th Anniversary.