Editing WHRW (section)

==The move to FM==
In 1965, WRAF's [[General manager|General Manager]] proposed moving the station to the [[FM band]], which was still largely unused. In November of that year, the FCC approved the construction of an educational station at 90.5&nbsp;MHz. The FCC approved the station's request for WHRW as the new station's call letters. "HRW" was chosen to represent Harpur Radio Workshop. While [[FM stereo|stereo FM]] had been introduced in the early 1960s, it was not an inexpensive technology, WHRW's first transmitter was a humble 10W in mono.

WHRW's first broadcast was on Friday, February 4, 1966, at 7:30 pm, which covered a Binghamton Colonials basketball game. The formal inaugural broadcast took place two days later. WHRW was only the third FM radio station in the Binghamton market.

The broadcasting followed the times and the culture in which it was steeped:

* [[Jazz]], [[Folk music|folk]], [[Classical music|classical]], [[Rock music|rock]], and other forms of music.
* News and [[culture]] coverage that leaned [[Liberalism|progressive]] ([[Vietnam War protests]] and debates, news from [[Pacifica Radio]] and the [[BBC]]).
* [[Interview]]s with local [[Politician|political figures]].

The regular broadcast schedule ran from Sunday through Thursday, from about 5 pm to 1 am.

In the spring of 1967, the mayor of Binghamton, Joseph Esworthy, was interviewed on the "Open Line" show by the station's general manager, David R. Cooper. When Esworthy was asked if he favored the legalization of [[marijuana]], he answered affirmatively. The next day, the local media picked up the story, and it is believed that the publicity is what ended Esworthy's political career.

In the late 1960s, construction on the new "Faculty Tower" (later more famously named the Glenn G. Bartle Library Tower) was completed. WHRW's antenna was moved to the top of this building in April 1968 and remained there to this day. 1969, the year of [[Woodstock]], WHRW-FM broadcast for the first time during the summer months with local volunteers on a daily schedule of music variety shows and news under the first summer General Manager. The program schedule became enormously popular with local listeners and WHRW-FM attracted many more. From that time forward, WHRW-FM has maintained summer programming.