WFHB History

The history of Bloomington’s community radio station, a continuing series. In September 2021, WFHB hired its first development director, Brooke Turpin. She’d spent a few years doing a similar job at KPFA in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her career path led her from the grandmama of all U.S. community radio stations to Bloomington’s first and only such station Quaker …

The history of Bloomington’s community radio station; a continuing series. It was only an idea in the spring of 1975. A crazy idea. Two fellows shared a makeshift apartment in a garage at 1130 W. 17th Street on the outskirts of Bloomington. Roommates Mark Hood, an audio engineer, and Jeffrey Morris, an electrician and carpenter, listened to the radio deep …