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WORTON — Kent County High School’s radio station, 90.5 WKHS, held its annual fall radiothon last month to help raise money for its studios. The fall fundraiser ran the week of Nov. 15-19, 2021 with special guests from the local community dropping in every day to talk with Kent County High School students on air. […]
Continue Reading90.5 WKHS With schools being closed due to the Coronavirus concern, we have missed our annual Spring Membership Drive week. Today is our 46th anniversary and even though we won’t be able to play “Rocket Man” at Noon as in years past, I can assure you that once the students return to the airwaves whenever […]
Continue ReadingBeginning on November 18, 2019 90.5 WKHS begins their annual Fall Membership drive. Located at Kent County High School in Worton, MD, 90.5 WKHS is the only FM High School Radio Station in Maryland. Students in the school’s Broadcasting Program are on the air during school days. Most evenings the station has volunteers with music […]
Continue ReadingOn the morning of March 25, 2019 Maryland’s only High School radio station, 90.5 WKHS, began the Spring Membership Drive. The station will be celebrating its 45th Anniversary on Thursday March 28, 2019, but the station is young at heart with High School students on the air during the day. Founded by the Kent County […]
Continue ReadingOn October 30, 1938 the original radio play “The War of the Worlds”, directed by Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre was broadcasted on CBS Radio Network. The radio play was so true to life that it panicked some of its listeners, who thought the Martian Invasion was actually happening. This year marks the 80th […]
Continue ReadingThe Broadcasting Students with Community Supporters, Station Manager Chris Singleton, Class of ’84, (at left) Alumni Fred Willard, Class of ’80 (to Singleton’s right) celebrates the 44th Anniversary on March 28, 2018. The station began broadcasting at 12 Noon on March 28, 1974. The station has been raising money for much need renovations that will […]
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In the final weeks of March 1974 the oil crisis brought about due to an oil embargo by OPEC nations was coming to an end, the terracotta Army city of Qin Shin Huang was discovered in China, Cher was at the top of the charts with “Dark Lady”, and “Blazing Saddles was the movie to […]
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This article was originally published on November 19, 2017: November 14, 2017 was not only the first day of a four day Fundraising Drive at WKHS, it was also the first day for the first year students of the program to have time on the air. Located at Kent County High School in Worton, MD, […]
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