Former Haverford College student, and WHRC DJ, Jennifer Waits, has a nice article on RadioSurvivor.com. She compares the fictitious Haverford College station WWXU, to the station where once upon a time, Waits once spun discs for an audience of dozens.
The newer version of the radio station is featured in the HBO series, Mare of Easttown.
It turns out that the similarity between the Haverford College radio station that HBO created in a studio, and the one pictured in the old photograph, was no coincidence.
Waits wrote –
Much care was put into the design of the fictional WWXU 101.9 FM at Haverford College, including research about the school’s actual college radio station. I was dying to know if Mare of Easttown‘s production team had looked at my WHRC photos, especially since the record library resembles the one depicted in a 1980s photograph that my dad took of me at Haverford. Additionally, the orange-colored framing of the show’s radio booth and the wooden couch are reminiscent of the 2009-era WHRC in photos that I shot during an Alumni Weekend visit. When I asked about those similarities, Cunningham confirmed my speculation, revealing that, “A lot of our show is about having this sort of generational history…and just feeling the bones of the past…so we used the Haverford pictures.”