WMHC (91.5 FM) is a

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to serve

South Hadley, Massachusetts South Hadley (, ) is a town in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 18,150 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Springfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area. South Hadley is home to Mount Holyoke Colleg ...

. The station is owned by

Mount Holyoke College Mount Holyoke College is a private liberal arts women's college in South Hadley, Massachusetts. It is the oldest member of the historic Seven Sisters colleges, a group of elite historically women's colleges in the Northeastern United States. ...

and licensed to the Trustees of Mount Holyoke College. It airs a

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format. The station claims to be one of the oldest broadcasting facilities in the United States completely run by women. The station was reassigned the WMHC call letters by the

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on August 9,

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, after having been deleted from the FCC database on April 30, 1999. Their most recent logo, a hand-drawn cassette tape, was designed by Ariel Hahn.

References

External links

WMHC website
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