WHUR has announced the passing of one of Joseph “Joe” Gorham. Joe died Sunday, January 23, 2022 while doing one of his greatest loves, traveling. He was 69-years-old.Joe Gorham 1952-2022
“Joe retired from WHUR in 2018, but he was still a regular in the building and at events, as he was always proud to be a WHUR family member. You could always count on Joe to be present and to give it his all. His decades of service to this station is something that we honor today and we know that he touched the lives of many throughout his hometown of Washington, DC,” said WHUR General Manager Sean Plater.
Gorham spent much of his career as a dedicated member of the WHUR Family holding down numerous positions. Joe started as a freelance technical producer for the Jerry Phillips Morning Show in 1979. From there, he went on to become a freelance announcer and moved on to a full-time staff performer.
In 1991, Joe left WHUR to go up the radio dial to WDJY-100 FM and then to Atlanta’s WALR 104.7. He returned to his beloved WHUR three years later where he hosted the weekend edition of the Original Quiet Storm followed by producing the Washington, DC edition of the #1 nationally syndicated Tom Joyner Morning Show.
One of Gorham’s proudest moments in his broadcasting career came in January 2004 when he was given the task to help WHUR to make history by becoming the first broadcast facility in the DMV to launch an HD radio station (96.3HD2 WHUR-World).
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