One new deejay says he has experienced the station's low name recognition first-hand.

"When I talk about it to my friends...they're all like, 'Oh wow, we have a radio station,'" says Thomas M. Bechtold '04.

Off-campus, however, the station boasts a loyal following among music aficionados in the Boston area.

"Anybody who's serious about classical music in the Boston area considers WHRB the best--and not just during orgy period when lots of wild and wonderful things happen," says Robert D. Levin '68, the Robinson professor of music at Harvard and an alumnus of the station.

"If WHRB were to change its programming the Boston area would be a huge loser," Levin says.

This type of praise for WHRB's unique classical, jazz, blues, punk and underground rock programming doesn't coming only from locals.

Thanks to the station's new initiative to broadcast Harvard Radio over the Internet, listeners all over the world can hear WHRB's programming. One German man e-mailed the station every few hours during a recent Verdi "orgy" when deejays played the Italian opera composer for four days straight, ecstatic to find a station that played so much Verdi.