WRHU (88.7 FM) is a

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Hempstead, New York The Town of Hempstead (also known historically as South Hempstead) is the largest of the three towns in Nassau County (alongside North Hempstead and Oyster Bay) in the U.S. state of New York. It occupies the southwestern part of the county, on ...

, owned and operated by Hofstra University and broadcasting an

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. Since the 2010–11 NHL season, WRHU has been the radio home of New York Islanders games. Current Hofstra students produce, engineer, and perform on-air duties on all NY Islander game broadcasts alongside veteran NY Islander play-by-play announcer Chris King. The station was named the National Association of Broadcasters' Non-Commercial Station of the Year in 2014, 2017, and 2019. It has also been ranked the number one college radio station in the country in ''The Princeton Review''s 2015 and 2016 college rankings.

Awards

2010s

* National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Marconi Awards – College Radio Station of the Year - 2019 (award formerly Non Commercial Station of the Year) * National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Marconi Awards – Non Commercial Station of the Year – 2017 * National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Marconi Awards – Non Commercial Station of the Year – 2014

2000s

* Society of Professional Journalists. Mark of Excellence Award Finalist – Best All-Around Radio Newscast – Newsline – 2010

Alumni

1950s

Dan Ingram Daniel Trombley Ingram (September 7, 1934 – June 24, 2018) was an American Top 40 radio disc jockey with a 50-year career on radio stations such as WABC and WCBS-FM in New York City. Career "Big Dan" started broadcasting at WHCH Hofstra Col ...

(a radio air announcer of the 1960s & 1970s on 77 WABC New York City) * Dick Maitland (multiple Emmy award-winning sound designer – Children's Television Workshop)

1960s

Alan Colmes Alan Samuel Colmes (September 24, 1950 – February 23, 2017) was an American radio and television host, liberal political commentator for the Fox News Channel, and blogger. He was the host of ''The Alan Colmes Show'', a nationally syndica ...

(top rated national TV and radio talk show host) *

John DeBella John DeBella is an American DJ in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on 102.9 WMGK-FM. He was born in Queens, New York. Career Before arriving in Philadelphia, DeBella did a stint at WLIR Garden City. In the early 1980s he hosted ''The DeBella Traves ...

(long time highly rated radio host, WMGK Philadelphia)

1970s

* Steven Epstein (Grammy award-winning Senior Executive Producer / Sony Classical)

References

External links

* {{Authority control RHU Hempstead (village), New York Hofstra University Mass media in Nassau County, New York Radio stations established in 1978