Though WHRB had to initiate its newest members over Zoom, each student picked a traditional five-character radio name.
Tune into WHRB, Harvard’s student-run radio station, just after midnight on a Sunday and you’ll hear the thumping bass of hip-hop, the staccato pulses of rap, and the soulful cadences of R&B. These beats, part of WHRB’s black music department, The Darker Side, comprise just a few hours of the station’s 24/7 lineup, which undergraduate DJs have typically broadcast live from its cozy studio in the basement of Pennypacker Hall.
But since COVID-19 closed campus, those DJs have had to pre-record programs and broadcast them remotely. They had the necessary infrastructure used during winter recess, for example but there was only so much pre-produced content already available, explained program director Katharine A.K. Courtemanche ’21. “So the question was: how are we going to continue to make, produce, and record remotely really high-quality air for such a lon