Editing WHYY-FM (section)

==History==
WHYY [[sign-on|signed on]] the air on December 14, 1954, owned by the Metropolitan Philadelphia Educational Radio and Television Corporation.<ref>[http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-YB/1958/Radio-All-1958-BC-YB.pdf Broadcasting Yearbook 1958 page A-357]</ref> It was the first educational station in Philadelphia. The transmitter, originally located at 17th and Sansom Streets in Philadelphia, was donated by [[Westinghouse Broadcasting]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://whyy.org/history/|title=History|website=WHYY|language=en-US|access-date=April 11, 2019|archive-date=March 30, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190330164714/https://whyy.org/history/|url-status=live}}</ref> In 1957, it added a sister television station, [[WHYY-TV]] on channel 35.

In 1963, WHYY-TV moved from channel 35 in Philadelphia to the stronger channel 12 in [[Wilmington, Delaware]]. At the time, [[Federal Communications Commission]] (FCC) regulations did not allow co-owned stations in different broadcast services to share the same base callsign if they did not have the same or adjoining [[city of license]]. Although Philadelphia and Wilmington are a single television market, then as now they are separate radio markets. As a result, the radio station was forced to change its call sign to WUHY-FM to match the renamed [[WPPT (TV)#Prior uses of channel 35 in Philadelphia|WUHY-TV]] on channel 35. The FCC removed this restriction in 1983 and the radio station was allowed to reclaim the WHYY-FM calls.<ref>[https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-83-573A1.pdf "In re Matter of: Revision of Section 73.3550 of the Commission's Rules with respect to the Assignment of New and Modified Call Letters to AM, FM and TV Broadcast Stations"], MM Docket No. 83-373, Adopted: December 1, 1983.</ref>

When NPR was formed in 1970, the station (then still known as WUHY-FM) became a charter member and was one of the 90 stations that carried the initial broadcast of ''[[All Things Considered]]''.