WMHD: On the Web

Students, Alumni Relaunch WMHD

Video may have killed the radio star, but the internet has resurrected Rose-Hulman’s campus radio station, WMHD. The station has been relaunched as a free music alternative, broadcasting 24 hours a day online at www.wmhdradio.org, through the efforts of 35 devoted students and five alumni. Four new weekly shows are airing:

New Music Monday (noon and 8 p.m.) Ladies First (Tuesdays, 8 p.m.) Kevin Music Hour (Wednesday, 8 p.m.)

Abbey Road Friday Lunchtime Show (noon) A special relaunch party was conducted amid the public health pandemic. It featured students and the familiar voices of alumni broadcasters Val Grafton (2018), Jim Grey (1989), Kevin Lanke (1997) and Erik Hayes (1997) introducing some of their favorite songs to share with the audience. What started as a two-hour show turned into a 41/2-hour labor of love for all the participants. “Despite the pandemic, we’ve really connected with the students off campus, faculty on campus and alumni scattered around the world,” says WMHD general manager Katana Colledge. “Being a radio station, we also must be able to connect to the music world at large. College radio stations have always been a place to experiment with new music, different music and explore all the genres the world has to offer.”

WMHD alumnus Jim Grey (left) joined station members in celebrating the station's relaunch this spring.

Grey adds, “It’s been lovely to reconnect with WMHD and know that a group of students have not only evolved it to keep pace with the times, but are just as excited and passionate about what they’re doing as we were in the late 1980s. I also love that the WMHD call letters endure, even though there is no reason to keep them on an online station other than to maintain that connection with the past.” n