For the last several years WHUP has been methodically building a digital collection of North Carolina music that will finally be unveiled beginning Monday, October 12 as part of 50/50 week. The collection spans the gamut of musical styles that showcase the breadth and depth of the state’s contributions to the annals of blues, jazz, […]

It is with a mixture of sadness, appreciation and best wishes that WHUP will be saying goodbye to one of our original flagship shows, She + Her. Over the course of the last five years, S&H hosts Sandra Davidson and Anita Rao have amplified the voices of Millennial women doing great work in the community […]

Like most public and community radio stations, WHUP holds an annual spring fund drive to help us pay the rent, keep the lights on, repair and replace equipment and otherwise keep the station on the air. This year, however, the magnitude of the needs in the community due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the uncertainty […]

A note to our listeners: WHUP is committed to providing important local news and information to the community as well as providing a note of stability and reassurance during the Coronavirus crisis, and we will continue to broadcast a limited live schedule including our morning news show, though with a regimen of safety precautions in […]

It’s Begathon time again this week as we ask our friends and listeners to help us survive into 2020 by making a contribution online or by mailing a check to WHUP, 117 W. King St., Hillsborough NC 27278. We spend much of our time stumping for other worthy causes in the Triangle, but we occasionally […]

We are pleased to announce that WHUP has secured its studio space above the legendary Dual Supply hardware store in downtown Hillsborough for the next decade! With affordable commercial space increasingly difficult to find in town, the extension comes at an important time for WHUP, which will celebrate its fourth anniversary this week since launching […]

When we don’t have a live DJ hosting a show, you hear our eclectic, hand-curated proprietary database of music we call WHUPtunes, thousands of songs that we cull from the vast storehouse of music from across the US and around the world (and stashed in the mythical WHUP vault) that helps create our unique sound. […]