WHUP continues to lead the radio pack with not one, not two, but three live-music special sessions this week! On Wednesday, August 16, the two core members of Banjo Nickaru & Western Scooches, Betina Hershey and Nick Russo, will make a pilgrimage to Hillsborough on their way to Tennessee for a set at 4:00 pm. […]
WHUP sign to emblazon downtown
After several months of painstaking planning and construction, WHUP’s amazing outdoor sign has been approved by the Hillsborough Historic District Commission and will soon be mounted on the brick wall outside our studios. The museum-quality work blended the design and fabrication skills of Cap’n Dave Kornegay (pictured), Jim Tomburg and Ellen Steinberg, who donated their […]
WHUP Reaches Global Audience
In less than a month, the WHUP website has seen visitors from across the globe. Our goal has always been to reach a global audience, and it’s exciting to see so many international listeners right from the start. So far, we have had listeners on every continent except Antarctica: Brazil and Argentina in South America […]
WHUP Launches New Website
The new WHUP website is now live. Be sure to bookmark it. You’re going to want to come back regularly to check out all the on-demand audio we’ll have. The WHUP IT team has put in countless hours to build this site and the high tech systems in the studio that will automatically take recordings […]
Show Schedule To Unfold In October
WHUP’s ambitious long-range programming plan includes an array of original music, news and public affairs programs with local character and personality but broad appeal. Our focus on live music means we’ll be inviting a steady stream of local, regional and national-caliber musicians to join us in the studios, beginning immediately. We’re setting a high bar! […]
WHUP Hits Moolah Target!
We are pleased to let our friends and supporters know that a fantastic and humbling response to our home-stretch Spare Change campaign has pushed WHUP just past our initial funding goal of $70,000, which we set more than a year ago. That may not be much in megabroadcaster circles, but for us it was enough […]