WHYY celebrates 70 years
This year is our platinum anniversary, and we’re making it one to remember. Check this page to catch all things 70th and more!
Enter our 70th Anniversary “Decades Challenge” sweepstakes
Decades Challenge
For each era of WHYY, photo collages were designed to showcase the WHYY talent and programs most notable from each decade.
What’s your favorite decade of WHYY? Vote on our Instagram for a chance to win a studio tour, merch, and more!
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Listen to stories taking place in your community with Philadelphia Revealed and Good Souls, or expand your horizons and tune in to Fresh Air and Peak Travels. Find your next binge-listen here.
New seasons of your favorite foodie shows like Check, Please! Philly and Milk Street’s My Family Recipe are here! Figure out dinner plans for the week on Saturday mornings and free up your Sunday evenings for British dramas like Moonflower Murders and Ridley. Don’t forget to catch special documentaries from Frontline and Secrets of the Dead.
Discover something new. Here’s the TV schedule and how to watch.
Join us out and about
We kicked off the fall season and 70th anniversary celebrations with the All Creatures Pet Fest, where you could find a new friend at the adoption fair, bring questions to an ask-a-vet clinic and meet local pet businesses!
Check whyy.org/events/ for future events, like a Fireside Chat with Ta-Nehisi Coates at Uncle Bobbie’s or the “Latin Rhythms & Reels” Film Series hosted with the Esperanza Arts Center.
Think you know? Think again.
Since WHYY-FM went live on December 14, 1954, we have engaged and connected the people of the Greater Philadelphia region through news, television and radio programming, digital content, educational services and community events.
Established by the Metropolitan Philadelphia Educational Radio and Television Corporation, WHYY was Philadelphia’s first noncommercial radio service and later the city’s first educational television station. WHYY-TV provided Delaware’s first local news program.
Since then, WHYY has established media training programs for youth, reaching 20,000 students across 55 schools in Philadelphia and Camden, created award-winning original programming like Albie’s Elevator and Fresh Air, and partnered with the Free Library of Philadelphia to host engaging discussions between neighbors through the Bridging Blocks event series. And that’s only a part of it!
WHYY was launched by the dedication of the community that it serves (learn more about that history here). And it’s thanks to you and that same commitment to our mission that we continue to thrive in our 70th year.
- WHYY-TV was the first and only television channel to air Sesame Street in test screenings before its national debut in 1969.
- When NPR was formed in 1970, WHYY-FM was one of 90 charter member stations to first broadcast All Things Considered.