WHYY history

The FCC granted WHYY's request to move the station to channel 12 in 1963, and WHYY began broadcasting on that allocation for the first time on September 12.

WHYY again moved its Philadelphia studios and offices in 1964.

The FM station, still named WUHY, continued to operate its transmitter from 17th and Sansom until 1972, when it joined most of the region's transmitters in the Roxborough section of the city.

A 10 Meter C-Band recieving dish, the first of its kind in Philadelphia, was placed atop the Market Street studios in 1978.

Through a special arrangement with the city, WHYY moved its headquarters and Channel 12 administration to the former Living History Center Museum on Independence Mall in February 1979.

Knuth died back in 1983 (a sad loss), but his wife JANICE & his son RAYMOND are still with us.

WHYY’s geographic coverage area expanded in 1986, when WHYY took stewardship of WDPB-TV, Channel 64, in Seaford, Del.

In 1987, the station decided to drop its mainly classical format in favor of news and information.

In continuing to serve Delaware, WHYY opened a facility housing studios and offices in January 1990 at 625 Orange Street in Wilmington.

WHYY improved its facilities once again in 2000, opening its Technology Center in a reconstructed building on Independence Mall.

Controversy erupted in the summer of 2007, when station CEO Bill Marrazzo was cited by the watchdog group Charity Navigator as the highest paid CEO in all of public broadcasting.