WFHR Radio celebrates 85 years of local broadcasting and community service to Wisconsin Rapids

WFHR Radio celebrates 85 years of local broadcasting and community service to Wisconsin Rapids

It started with local results from the 1940 presidential election and continues to this day with community information and conversation. Radio listeners around Wisconsin Rapids tuned their dials to a new station on Election Night 1940, waiting to hear if Wendell Wilkie would deny President Franklin Roosevelt an unprecedented third term. It was not the first time their radios gave them what we now call “the news,” but it was the first time they h…