By Demian Russian
Howard University Radio, celebrating its 40th anniversary, announced today it will launch H.U.R. Voices on Thursday, December 1st on Sirius XM Radio’s (NASDAQ:SIRI) channel 141.
This is a milestone year for us. Not only are we celebrating 40 years of our flagship radio station, we have been given the awesome opportunity of rolling out H.U.R. Voices on SiriusXM, which gives us the opportunity to further expand our brand and nationalize our programming.
– Jim Watkins, general manager of WHUR, WHUR-WORLD, and H.U.R. Voices
Sirius XM Radio granted Howard University a lease to create two channels on its Satellite Radio platform. The other channel, HBCU, is scheduled to launch May of 2012 and will provide music and talk programming from Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
H.U.R. Voices will offer exciting, educational and entertaining original programming that examines and explores issues that affect people of color, including a unique mixture of talk radio, local and national news, and great music. The channel will feature WHUR and WHUR-WORLD signature programs like the “Daily Drum,” a weekday public affairs program that will expand to one-hour; the “Dr. Audrey Chapman Show,” with the relationship guru; and the “Sighlent Storm,” the only radio show devoted to the issue of domestic violence. New programs include “People Money Life,” “The Traveling Eye” and “He Said She Said.” H.U.R. Voices will embody the mission of Howard University – to serve “America and the Global Community.”
– Howard University
WHUR celebrates four decades of broadcasting and community service on December 10th of this year. WHUR was first station in the Washington area to broadcast in HD and the only urban station in the country to sponsor a NASCAR race with its own driver.
Howard University is a private research university that is comprised of 13 schools and colleges. Founded in 1867, students pursue studies in more than 120 areas leading to undergraduate, graduate and professional degrees. Since 1998, the University has produced two Rhodes Scholars, two Truman Scholars, a Marshall Scholar, 24 Fulbright Scholars and 11 Pickering Fellows. Howard also produces more on campus African-American Ph.D. recipients than any other university in the United States. For more information on Howard University, call 202-238-2330, or visit the University’s Web site at www.howard.edu.
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Contact the author: DemianRussian@SatelliteRadioPlayground.com
