WXPN

Updated 04-May-2020.

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World Cafe: WXPN in Philadelphia and host Raina Douris present interviews and performances with today’s essential and emerging artists.

WXPN 88.5 FM :: Public Radio from the University of Pennsylvania: WXPN provides an unparalleled musical listening experience featuring contemporary music from many genres including rock, indie, folk, blues, R&B, and alt country.

XPN Media Player: XPN Media Player

David Dye: David Dye is a longtime Philadelphia radio personality whose music enthusiasm has captivated listeners of World Cafe since 1991. World Cafe is produced by WXPN, the public radio service of the University of Pennsylvania.

My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: the station’s call sign, often abbreviated to XPN, stands for “Experimental Pennsylvania Network” in 1957, it was granted a full license as a 10-watt college radio station at 88.9 local DJ Michael Tearson got his start at the station in the late 1960s with a radio show The Attic . in 1975, a controversial broadcast on the talk show The Vegetable Report led to an obscen a citizen’s group organized to petition the FCC to consider xPN’s unique service . with a pledge from Penn to create positions for professional staff to run the station, the license to renew . XPN station moved from 88.9 to 88.5 on the FM broadcast band in order to increase signal coverage . in 1988, WXPN started Kids Corner, a daily interactive radio show for kids hosted by Kathy O’Connell in 2004, the radio station moved to new facilities at 3025 Walnut Street . the station shares space with a music venue called World Cafe Live . in October 2015, WNTI and WXPN jointly announced a sales agreement WNTI changed its call sign to WXPJ on may 16, 2016 . the station’s weekday programs are all produced by its own staff . from august 15 to august 18, WXPN broadcast a “Woo portions of WXPN’s schedule are simulcast on WKHS 90.5 FM, Worton, Maryland . station is also syndicated to several other public radio stations, which air it on their HD2 or HD in mid-June 2010, “Y-Rock on XPN” programming was cancelled due to budget cuts . the HD2 channel and companion online stream would later be re-branded as “XpoNential Radio” the as of September 2005, the radio station is located on the 5th floor of the Hollenback Center . in 2003, the WQHS radio tower fell in a severe storm . the station now broadcasts exclusively over the