WHUP is known for staging unique events, and we’ve got one happening on Saturday, December 7 – An Evening of Rare Spirits! The centerpiece will be a tasting of vintage whiskeys and other impossible-to-find bottles dating from the 1940s to 1980. Also on the bill: Tasty hors d’oeuvres from Saratoga Grill, fortune telling by the […]

The annual WHUP Fund-A-Thon will take place Monday, December 2 through Sunday, December 8. We postponed the week from our usual October dates due to the need to direct as much charitable giving to Western North Carolina as possible for immediate Hurricane Helene relief efforts. But we continue to rely on our listeners and supporters […]

After much discussion of the station’s needs and how best to meet them, the WHUP board at its October meeting has finalized the details of hiring a full-time station manager. The search for the ideal candidate will formally begin after the completion of the WHUP Fall Fund-A-Thon on December 8. The process of hiring our […]

Last fall WHUP made the unprecedented decision to share the revenue from our on-air fundraiser with Orange County musicians who were struggling to make ends meet during the pandemic. With the generous support of our friends and fans, the WHUP 50/50 Event generated more than $4,000 for our local musicians plus helped keep WHUP solvent […]

Everyone loves the internationally renowned WHUP logo, which until now has only been available to show off at home on our limited edition T-shirts. Though WHUP has not gotten into the swag business in an aggressive way, we’ve now expanded our lineup of cool stuff with a new T, a weather-resistant die-cut logo sticker and […]

WHUP is fortunate to have a stellar group of IT wizards in our volunteer ranks, and they’ve been especially busy of late upgrading our systems and increasing our technological capacity. Led by Linux developer and alternative beverage magnate Jamey Kirby, we recently completed the process of updating the operating systems on the networked computers that […]

Every six months we ask our listeners to show their support for WHUP with a donation during our week-long Begathon fundraiser, and that week is this week! Like all listener-supported radio stations, we rely primarily on you to help us repair and replace equipment, pay the bills and improve the services we’ve been providing to […]