After having been granted the call letters WHHH a couple of months earlier, 96.3 FM in Indianapolis hit the air on October 28, 1991 — making it the first new FM signal in the market in over 25 years. This aircheck was seemingly recorded overnight following the station’s first full day. A video of the actual sign-on is posted on Youtube (the logo shown above is a screen shot taken from that video.)
In these earliest moments, the station referred to itself multiple ways:
- “Hoosier 96”
- “Hoosier Hot 96”
- “Hot Hoosier 96”
- “Hot Hoosier 96.3”
- “Hoosier Hot 96 Dot 3”
- “Hoosier 96, WHHH”
- “Hoosier 96 Dot 3, WHHH”
- “96 Dot 3, WHHH”
Today, the station calls itself “Hot 96.3” and offers a very different sound than what’s heard on this montage.
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Marc
Wow! Great to hear Hot 96.3 when it was a Top 40 station.
Vaughn
Uh don’t you mean a CHUrban station Marc? 😉