WUPI

WUPI
City	Presque Isle, Maine
Broadcast area	Aroostook County, Maine
Branding	The Owl
Frequency	92.1 MHz
First air date	1973
Format	Top 40 Hit/Variety Radio
ERP	17 watts
HAAT	-12.0 meters
Class	D
Facility ID	69317
Transmitter coordinates	46°40′15″N 68°1′0″W / 46.67083°N 68.01667°W / 46.67083; -68.01667
Callsign meaning	University of Maine at Presque Isle
Owner	University of Maine System
Webcast	Listen Live options
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WUPI is an American FM radio station licensed in Presque Isle, Maine currently carrying a Top 40 Hit/Variety Radio format and operated by the University of Maine at Presque Isle. The station has an ERP of 17 watts with studios in Normal Hall at UMPI. It is the only Top 40 Hit radio station north of Bangor, Maine, however the station airs many other specialty shows of different music genres.

History

WUPI was licensed July 26, 1973, broadcasting at 91.1 on the FM dial with 10 watts of power. WUPI switched channels in April 1978 moving to 90.3 FM, and finally went to 92.1 FM in 1983, which included an upgrade to 17 watts. In July 2006, the station was moved from its previous location in the basement of Normal Hall to a new home at the center of the University of Maine at Presque Isle in the Campus Center. In December 2009, the station moved once again to a larger facility in Normal Hall, in order to combine student media resources for the University. After playing a hybrid of Adult Contemporary and Top 40 for about 10 months in 2010, the switch was made to Contemporary Hit Radio (CHR) on Wednesday, September 15. The station was also installed with a computerized automation system at that time allowing the channel to be hear 24/7. In October 2010, the station added online streaming capabilities with radio applications listed on TuneIn and ShoutCast for the broadcast to be heard all across the globe. The antenna is currently located on top of Emerson Hall at a height.

In September 2016 the station moved to Pullen Hall with the closure of the building Normal Hall. The station currently broadcasts 7 days a week, 24 hrs a day from Pullen 209 in the classroom building here at the University of Maine at Presque Isle. In October 2016 WUPI celebrated a year of partnership with UMPI Athletics. Over the past year WUPI and UMPI Athletics have brought you live broadcasts of home basketball games and a weekly sports talk radio show "The Hoot". WUPI has made strides over the past year bringing it's listeners a wider variety of Top 40 music and specialty shows. Some of the stations highlights include: Musical Potpourri, Saturday Hotspot, Kicking it in the Sticks, Fresh beats with the Freshies, and The Room Where it Happens.

External links

Query the FCC's FM station database for WUPI

Radio-Locator information on WUPI

Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for WUPI

Radio stations in the Northern Maine/Downeast Maine market

By AM frequency	600 780 1240 1370 1390

By SW frequency	5.13, 7.49, 9.33, 15.42

By FM frequency	89.3 89.7 90.5 91.1 91.7 Eastport 91.7 Ellsworth 92.1 92.7 93.7 94.7 94.9 95.3 96.1 96.9 97.7 Caribou 97.7 Winter Harbor 98.1 99.1 100.1 101.1 101.9 102.3 102.9 103.1 105.7 106.1 106.5

By callsign	WALZ WBCQ WBCQ-FM WBFE WBPW WCRQ WCXU/WCXV/WCXX/W276AY WDEA WEGP WFST WHOU-FM WHMX WMED WMEF WMEM WNSX WOZI WQDY-FM WQHR WRMO WRNM WRPB WSHD WSYY WSYY-FM WTUX WUMM WUPI WWLN WXME

Defunct	WAGM/950 WQDY/1230 WHOU/1340 WRNE/89.1 WXMN/89.5 WUFK/92.1

Maine radio markets Augusta–Waterville Bangor Portland Other Maine radio regions Northern & Downeast Maine Lewiston–Auburn See also List of radio stations in Maine Northern New Brunswick Radio Fredericton Radio Saint John Radio Bas-Saint-Laurent Radio

Maine college radio stations

WBOR (Bowdoin College) WHSN (Husson College) WMEB-FM (University of Maine) WMHB (Colby College) WMPG (University of Southern Maine) WRBC (Bates College) WUMF (University of Maine-Farmington) WUMM (University of Maine-Machias) WUPI (University of Maine-Presque Isle)

defunct	WRNE (Ricker College) WUFK (University of Maine-Fort Kent)

See also adult contemporary classic hits college country news/talk NPR oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in Maine

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