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The University of Chicago owns the station's FCC license. WHPK is an all-volunteer community radio station with both student and non-student volunteers (called station members), who are mostly on-air deejays and other program hosts and substitutes. Programming blocks divided into formats: classical, dance, folk, international, jazz, public affairs, rap, and rock formats — along with a few specialty shows outside any of the formats. WHPK's station manager and program director are elected by the station's student members and must be students themselves. The station's broadcast engineer is paid by the university. The University of Chicago is a private co-educational university located in Chicago, Illinois. ... The FCCs official seal. ... Jamaicas style of rapping that was the predecessor of todays rap/hip hop. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Dance music is music composed, played, or both, specifically to accompany social dancing. ... Folk music, in the original sense of the term, is music by and of the people. ... Jazz is a musical art form originally characterized by blue notes, syncopation, swing, call and response, polyrhythms, and improvisation. ... Public affairs is a catch-all term that includes public policy as well as public administration, both of which are closely related to and draw upon the fields of political science as well as economics. ... Hip hop music is a style of popular music. ... Rock cock is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars, and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. ... Broadcast engineering is the field of electrical engineering, and now to some extent radio and television broadcasting. ...

WHPK broadcasts at 100 watts. Its studios and tower are both located on the University of Chicago campus. The University of Chicago is a private co-educational university located in Chicago, Illinois. ...

WHPK's slogan is "The Pride of the South Side." The call letters stand for "Woodlawn-Hyde Park-Kenwood," the Chicago neighborhoods around the university. Woodlawn is a neighborhood on the south side of Chicago, USA bounded by Jackson Park to the East, the University of Chicago to the North, Martin Luther King Drive to the West, and, mostly, 67th to the South. ... Hyde Park is a neighborhood on the south side of Chicago, located seven miles south of the Loop; it is home to the Museum of Science and Industry and the University of Chicago. ... Kenwood, located on the south side of Chicago, Illinois, is one of the official Chicago Community Areas. ... Chicago (officially named the City of Chicago) is the third largest city in the United States (after New York City and Los Angeles), with an official population of 2,896,016, as of the 2000 census. ...

History

WHPK is the successor to the university's earlier carrier-current station, WUCB, which was founded in 1945 by students who had gained experience with radio serving in World War II. In 1959, WUCB's studios were relocated from Burton-Judson Courts on 61st Street to Mitchell Tower in the Reynolds Club building on the southwest corner of 57th Street and University Avenue, a space that had previously been home to the university's Radio Office. Carrier current is a method of low-power broadcasting that uses the electrical system of a building to distribute an AM radio signal. ... 1945 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrinations, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons like the atom bomb World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a mid-20th-century conflict that engulfed much of the globe... 1959 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

WHPK came into being in 1968 when the campus secret Society of the Owl and Serpent disbanded and donated its funds and Reynolds Club office space to a student radio group. WHPK also assumed the adjacent WUCB studios. WHPK started broadcasting as an 15-watt FM station at 88.3 MHz on March 22, 1968. [1] In 1985, WHPK upgraded to a 100-watt transmitter and moved to the current frequency of 88.5 MHz. 1968 was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... March 22 is the 81st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (82nd in Leap years). ... 1968 was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... 1985 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

External link

• WHPK's Website

Notable radio personalities

DJ JP Chill has had a rap and hip hop show on WHPK since 1986. It was one of the earliest rap shows in the country and the first in Chicago.