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97.9 WHAV ♦ December 20, 2022 ♦ Public Media of New England, Inc.
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If you prefer writing a check, make payable to WHAV and send to:
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WHAV
30 How St.
Haverhill, MA 01830-6131
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WHAV’s Better Sound in the Frank McIntosh Tradition Depends on Your Support Too
As the year ends, WHAV is just shy of the amount needed to deliver robust local news and entertainment offerings in the new year.
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WHAV has not only been celebrating the 75th anniversary this month of the opening of its downtown studio building, but also of its return there. WHAV took advantage of the moving upheaval to improve the equipment, processing and connections between its studios and tower atop Silver Hill. In fact, arrangements were especially tailored to WHAV’s programming—naturally sounding voices on local news programs and music presented the way classic artists intended.
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The higher quality sound—perhaps the best on the dial—was always a WHAV goal. Frank H. McIntosh, whose legendary audio amplifiers were used at the Woodstock Music Festival in 1969, was one of WHAV’s original engineers.
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Haverhill’s Ghosts of Urban Renewal to Make Their Presence Known at City Council Meeting Tonight
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As the Haverhill City Council will discover tonight, the ghosts of urban renewal have a way of haunting developments that replace much of what was lost during extensive demolition during the 1960s and 1970s. During construction of Pentucket Medical’s new building during the early 1980s, for example, the foundation of old City Hall was struck by excavation equipment which stalled …
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Rep. Vargas Discusses Haverhill Housing Success and State Plans at White House Conference
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Haverhill Rep. Andy X. Vargas was one of two Massachusetts representatives to take part last week in a White House meeting with state legislative leaders on housing affordability. The conversation centered on the severity of the housing shortage across states and how state legislatures have worked to decrease living costs in recent years. The group included 18 state legislators from …
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Podcast: Santa Claus is Coming But Many Children Already Met the Jolly Man Thanks to Haverhill Lions Club
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When Christmas Eve rolls around this weekend, many children will find themselves nestled all snug in their beds, satisfied they already saw Santa, but without his sled. The Haverhill Lions Club, for example, recently provided a stop for Santa during its Breakfast with Santa. Haverhill Lions Club Past President Laurie Cantwell, a recent guest on WHAV’s morning show, and said …
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Sections: Haverhill, What's On?
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Poet Comeau Offers a ‘Pandemic Confession’ About Changing Personalities Post-COVID-19
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Editor’s note: Dr. Raymond F. Comeau continues to chronicle the surprise impacts and aftermath of the global COVID-19 pandemic. He tells WHAV his latest, “Pandemic Confession,” suggests “Now is a good time, while the pandemic is trailing off, for many of us to look inward to discover who we have become, and also to plan for our future.” A Haverhill …
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Free Chanukah Celebration in Washington Square, Haverhill, Tonight at 6
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Chabad of Merrimack Valley and Anshe Sholom Chabad of Greater Haverhill plan a menorah lighting and Chanukah celebration tonight in downtown Haverhill. The free celebration takes place at 6 p.m., in Washington Square, Haverhill. All are welcome and food such as latkes and jelly donuts are available along with dreidels and more. For more information, visit jewishhaverhill.com.
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Sections: Community Spotlight, Haverhill
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Today’s Radio Highlights
- WIN for Breakfast: Local news, weather, traffic, sports and information. Win Damon is light, lively and local, 6-9 a.m.
- Classic Hits: Favorites all day, except as indicated
- Local News: Every half hour from 6-9 a.m., hourly 9 a.m.-3 p.m., every half hour from 3-6 p.m.
- Community Spotlight: News of upcoming cultural and civic events, quarter past every hour
- Mass Moments: Today in Massachusetts history, 6:45 a.m. and 3:45 p.m.
- Melinda’s Garden Moment: Melinda Myers offers tips, 7:45 and 4:45 p.m.
- Sound Beat: 8:45 a.m. and 5:45 p.m.
- Insight Daily: 9:45 a.m. and 6:45 p.m.
- Haverhill City Council: Live, 7 p.m.
- X Minus One: 10 p.m. and 1 a.m.
- FSN World News: 11 p.m.
Wednesday’s Radio Highlights
- WIN for Breakfast: Local news, weather, traffic, sports and information. Win Damon is light, lively and local, 6-9 a.m. Guest: Maureen Lynch, superintendent, Whittier Regional Vocational Technical High School.
- Classic Hits: Favorites all day, except as indicated
- Local News: Every half hour from 6-9 a.m., hourly 9 a.m.-3 p.m., every half hour from 3-6 p.m.
- Community Spotlight: News of upcoming cultural and civic events, quarter past every hour
- Mass Moments: Today in Massachusetts history, 6:45 a.m. and 3:45 p.m.
- Melinda’s Garden Moment: Melinda Myers offers tips, 7:45 and 4:45 p.m.
- Sound Beat: 8:45 a.m. and 5:45 p.m.
- Insight Daily: 9:45 a.m. and 6:45 p.m.
- Great Gildersleeve: 10 p.m. and 1 a.m.
- FSN World News: 11 p.m.
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