WHER

WHER

Infobox Radio station
name = WHER
area = Memphis, Tennessee
branding = WHER
slogan = "1,000 Beautiful Watts"
airdate = October 29, 1955
frequency = 1430 kHz
format = popular, jazz, talk
power = 1000 watts
class = IV
callsign_meaning = W "Her"
owner = Sam Phillips and Kemmons Wilson
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WHER (1430 kHz AM) was the first "All-Girl" radio station when it went on the air in October 1955. Staffed almost exclusively by women (including broadcasting pioneer Vida Jane Butler), the station spawned a series of imitators, but later evolved into a mixed-gender staff rechristened WWEE.

The radio station was the brainchild of Sam Phillips, who used a portion of the $35,000 he made from the sale of Elvis Presley's recording contract to RCA Records to finance the station. A portion of the balance of the funding came from Holiday Inn founder Kemmons Wilson, who also provided the station's first home, in a part of the third Holiday Inn ever built.

External links

* [http://www.npr.org/programs/lnfsound/stories/991029.stories.html Kitchen Sisters documentary on WHER]
* [http://www.npr.org/about/press/991025.wher.html "NPR Revisits WHER - The World's First All-Girl Radio Station"]
* [http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/transcripts_102805_girls.html "Golden Girls"] , "On The Media", October 28, 2005. '
* http://www.npr.org/programs/lnfsound/talkon/guaralnick.html


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