| Broadcast area | West Hull, and surrounding towns and villages |
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| Slogan | At the heart of the community |
| Frequency | 106.9FM |
| First air date | 26 March 2007 |
| Format | Popular Music and Local Based Speech |
| Website | whcrfm.com |
West Hull Community Radio (known on air as "New WHCR") is a local community radio station serving the areas of West Hull, England and surrounding towns and villages.
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WHCR is focused on providing high quality radio programmes 24 hours a day 7 days a week. The station music policy is for 'instantly recognisable classic hit music' during daytime hours with a much broader mix of music than any commercial stations in the area during the evening. WHCR has a large focus on local based speech content that provides information, news, and local content. This can consist of outside broadcasts from many wide and variable local sources, events and organisations as well as interviews with local community groups or people that listeners may be interested. A variety of news, entertainment and factual features taken from IRN are also played out. The station works on an average 60% music - 40% speech principle with each show having slightly different amounts of these.[1]
In December 2009, the station won Radio Station Of The Year in Yorkshire for 2009 with a potential audience of under 300,000 adults at the Sony radio academy awards.[2]
In August 2011 WHCR drive-time presenter Pete Mills won the Hull Radio Personality of the Year Award in a three-week online poll carried out by the Hull based telecom company Karoo part of the KCom group beating 10 other radio personalities from other local commercial and BBC stations.
WHCR has a staff of 52 volunteers who carry out a wide range of duties including broadcasting, sales, marketing, and news/information gathering.
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