WHCU
Broadcast area Ithaca, NY
Branding "News-Talk 870"
Frequency 870 (kHz)
Translator(s) W240CB (95.9 MHz) Ithaca
First air date 1912
Format news-talk
Power 5,000 watts (day)
1,000 watts (night)
Class B
Facility ID 18048
Transmitter coordinates 42°27′54″N 76°22′23″W / 42.465°N 76.37306°W / 42.465; -76.37306 Daytime
42°21′49″N 76°36′20″W / 42.36361°N 76.60556°W / 42.36361; -76.60556 Nighttime
Callsign meaning W Home of Cornell University
Owner Saga Communications
Sister stations WQNY, WNYY, WIII, WYXL
Website whcu870.com

WHCU (870 kHz) is a radio station in Ithaca, New York that programs a news/talk format. The station has been owned by Saga Communications since 2005.

History [link]

The forerunner to WHCU began in 1912 as an experiment in the School of Electrical Engineering at Cornell University. The original call letters were 8YC, later changed to 8XU. A forerunner of the Federal Communications Commission issued a broadcast license on May 27, 1922, with the call letters WEAI. The new station took to the air on January 23, 1923. The station was used as a vehicle for promoting the university's extension service and all of its programming was educational in nature.

In 1932, Cornell joined with the Elmira Star-Gazette to start radio station WESG in Elmira, which shared programming with WEAI. The Star-Gazette managed the station during this period, however, the FCC ordered Cornell in 1940 to run the station itself or surrender the license. Within 12 hours of the deadline, the station signed on with borrowed staff and equipment.

The stations went their separate ways. WESG became WENY and WEAI became WHCU, which stands for Home of Cornell University.

WHCU's first complete studios and offices were completed in 1941. New studios were built in downtown Ithaca in 1957.

Cornell University sold WHCU and sister station WYXL to Eagle Communications in 1985. Six years later, the stations moved into a new complex on Hanshaw Road, northeast of Ithaca in the town of Dryden.

WHCU and sister stations WYXL, WQNY, and WNYY were purchased by Saga Communications in 2005, under the name Cayuga Radio Group.

WHCU features a three-and-a-half hour local news and interview based morning show each weekday called the Morning Newswatch. It also has a one-hour local news show weekday evenings, called the Evening Newswatch. WHCU is an affiliate of CBS News and carries top of the hour news coverage, as well as one-minute bottom-of-the-hour news updates during its live, local programming. It is also the flagship of Cornell University football, hockey, and men's lacrosse broadcasts.

In March 2010, WHCU returned to the FM airwaves when sister station WQNY launched News/Talk 870 on its HD3 channel. WHCU had been on a former WYXL translator (first at 95.5, then at 95.9 briefly) before Saga turned off the translator, accommodating the introduction of WFIZ into the market. The use of WQNY-HD3 overcomes the challenges of 870's night time pattern, especially outside of Tompkins County.

In August 2010, WHCU returned to analog FM broadcasting with the reintroduction of a translator at 95.9 FM. W240CB is a 250-watt translator located on Ithaca's south hill, and it is licensed to rebroadcast WQNY. As with Hits 103.3 and 98.7 the Vine, the company uses the translator to rebroadcast the aforementioned HD3 signal.

Programming & Hosts [link]

Since 2005, WHCU has been a station with conservative hosts. With the exception of the Morning and Evening Newswatch and Saturday Morning Newswatch, the hosts are nationally syndicated. Weekend programming includes "news you can use" self-help programming along with some news and politics. WHCU's Morning Newswatch provides local news, sports, weather, and interviews about local politics and other news items each Monday through Friday from 5:30-9 AM. The hosts are Dave Vieser and Geoff Dunn, the team began hosting the weekday program in late May, 2006. The Saturday Morning Newswatch airs on WHCU from 7-10 AM.

External links [link]


https://wn.com/WHCU

Podcasts:

PLAYLIST TIME:

My World

by: O.C.

Uh, yeah y'know, shit is wild he, heh
Can't complain though I'm alive
Healthy and all a that knahmsayin?
Just tryin' to do my thang, praise to all
Bust it that nigga Slick Rick said, I waited long time sweatin' it
I got jerked but now I'm gettin' it, hazy like asthma bizarre disaster
Stress almost held me down from bein' a master
The faster preacher, poet, a teacher, it's been so long like Monifah
Believe that I'm needed, in rappin', I breathe this
Some pick up a microphone and can't even achieve this
Oscar award winning your shit, I'm bored with it
Stop copy-catting son
(Why?)
'Cause your dog did it
Get your own lingo, make up your own jingle
Ten years later you be bitin' my single
Primo, take it downtown, swing it
Intervenin' on the board, sensimil steamin', yeah
Catch the vibe like a tribal dance
In the clubs on the low with the boy stance
Money rubbin' with a shorty got bumped by a chump
Tell him, step off, I'm doin' the hump, yeah
I say it's my world and I won't stop
And if you stand in my way you bound to get dropped
Some wish that I was gone 'cause they know I'ma win
In a minute, I'll be makin' six G's times ten
I'm the computer, printin' out data take notes
Then analyze the information and press send
Freaky like porno, Ron Jeremy saw no
Obstacle or pussy to stop him from bonin' a hoe
Me and the mic double trouble
Chicks look at us like twins, all lovable and huggable
Prognosis, on the, mic I choke out
Had the same effects from coughin', blowin' smoke out
Architect, rap technician, man listen
It's no doubt you gonna pump this in your system
My skills ill and all of that above
Confidence, I'm not worried 'bout a street buzz
I'm O.C., who you? I never heard of ya
Get out my face 'fore I turn into a motherfuckin' murderer
I want the green like indo, a mansion, a car
A wife who's never been a bimbo
Too much to ask, well, to me that's simple
Wanna retire on a yacht called the S. S. Minnow
I say it's my world and I won't stop
And if you stand in my way, you bound to get dropped
I say it's my world and I won't stop
And if you stand in my way, you bound to get dropped
I say it's my world and I won't stop
And if you stand in my way, you bound to get dropped
I say it's my world and I won't stop
And if you stand in my way, you bound to get dropped
Top choice, this here nigga got poise
Ain't a man alive who could stop my noise
I snatch a star from the sky, spark up your lye
You stand astounded wonderin' how I did it
Now you're star struck, like I truck gold
Treatin' me like a nigga havin' a million records sold
Now a star child, phenomenon like the X-Files
Rappers know I'm comin' so they go in exile
Czar in this rap shit, comin' on your mattress
Microphone fiend, I make beats do back flips
Fear me like genocide, serious
How I do it through your stereo, mysterious
O.C. do demolition, nil competition
Like robot Kong on a destroy mission
A matter of life and death you try to fight for breath
I snatch your heart from a slice through your chest
Who the best from New York to Bogota?
Who got face thinkin' they scare me with a scar, shit?
What I be bringin' is a terrible sight
A performance never again performed on the mic
I say it's my world and I won't stop
And if you stand in my way, you bound to get dropped
I say it's my world and I won't stop
And if you stand in my way, you bound to get dropped
I say it's my world and I won't stop
And if you stand in my way, you bound to get dropped
I say it's my world and I won't stop
And if you stand in my way, you bound to get dropped




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