While Kent County High School’s radio station is celebrating 40 years of broadcasting this month, the 17,500 watt radio station based in Worton has played many roles in the community beside being a popular student program.
Starting as a vocational training program when it first opened, it also became a unique community radio station for the entire region, and later became one an affiliated partner with one of the country’s largest public radio stations at the University of Pennsylvania, WXPN for after school programming.
Leslie Raimond, Director of the Kent County Arts Council, one of the first volunteer DJs for WKHS during the early years, and only recently retired from her weekly show, reminisced with the Spy last week at WKHS’s open house.
The video is approximately five minutes in length.
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