WHER (defunct)

WHER
Broadcast area	Memphis, Tennessee
Branding	WHER
Slogan	"1,000 Beautiful Watts"
Frequency	1430 kHz
First air date	October 29, 1955
Format	popular, jazz, talk
Power	1000 watts
Class	IV
Callsign meaning	W "Her"
Owner	Sam Phillips and Kemmons Wilson

WHER (1430 kHz AM) was the first "All-Girl" radio station when it went on the air in October 1955. Staffed almost exclusively by women (including broadcasting pioneer Vida Jane Butler), the station spawned a series of imitators, but later evolved into a mixed-gender staff rechristened WWEE.

The radio station was the brainchild of Sam Phillips, who used a portion of the $35,000 he made from the sale of Elvis Presley's recording contract to RCA Records to finance the station. A portion of the balance of the funding came from Holiday Inn founder Kemmons Wilson, who also provided the station's first home, in a part of the third Holiday Inn ever built.

As of 2008, the 1430 kHz frequency is occupied by WOWW, a Radio Disney affiliate.

External links

Kitchen Sisters documentary on WHER
"NPR Revisits WHER - The World's First All-Girl Radio Station"
"Golden Girls", On the Media, October 28, 2005. '
"Talk on Lost and Found Sound's", Peter Guralnick

Radio stations in the Memphis, Tennessee market

By FM frequency	87.7 88.1 88.1 88.5 89.3 89.9 90.5 91.1 91.7 92.5 92.7 92.9 93.5 93.9 94.1 94.7 94.9 95.3 95.7 96.1 96.3 97.1 97.7 98.1 98.9 99.3 99.7 101.1 101.9 102.7 103.5 103.9 104.5 105.3 105.5 105.9 107.1 107.3 107.3 107.5

By AM frequency	560 600 640 680 730 790 830 860 910 950 990 1030 1070 1180 1210 1240 1250 1340 1380 1430 1480 1600

NOAA Weather Radio frequency	162.475

By callsign	K213CN W257CY KAKJ KAMJ KARH KCJF KERL KHLS KJMS KLCN KLJK KOSE KQPN KQXF KWAM KWNW KWYN-FM KXHT KXJK WAVN WBBP WCRV WDIA WEBL WEGR WEVL WGKX WGSF WGUE WHAL-FM WHBQ WHBQ-FM WHRK WIVG WKBL WKBQ WKIM WKNO-FM WKRA-FM WKVF WLFP WLOK WLRM WMC WMC-FM WMFS WMFS-FM WMPS WMQM WOWW WPGF-LP WQOX WRBO WREC WRVR WUMR WUMY WURC WXK49 WXMX WYPL

Defunct	WSTN 1410 AM

Nearby radio markets Cape Girardeau-Sikeston Clarksdale Jackson Jonesboro Little Rock Oxford Tupelo See also List of radio stations in Tennessee List of radio stations in Mississippi List of radio stations in Arkansas

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