WCHL 2013 Community Forum

The 2016 WCHL Community Forum is slated to begin at eight o’clock on Tuesday morning to kick off a 10-hour live broadcast of panels discussing issues impacting our community. The marathon will begin with the Town & Gown panel with UNC Chancellor Carol Folt, Chapel Hill Mayor Pam Hemminger, Carrboro Mayor Lydia Lavelle, Hillsborough Mayor […]

The Hill WCHL has signed a new four-year contract with Learfield which will keep it as the flagship station for Tar Heel sports.

This Week: Born into a blue collar and agricultural clan in rural Pennsylvania, Dr. Jim Crawford was the first in his family to graduate from college. Earning his PhD from the University of North Carolina, he taught US and World History at several universities in the piedmont North Carolina for several decades. He served as chairman of the Chatham County board of commissioners, and currently serves as trustee for Central Carolina Community College. He is a firm believer in American democracy and trusts that the constitution will hold firm now as it has in past crises despite the broken, distempered electorate.

This Week: Kirsha Dudenhausen is the General Manager of Chatham Marketplace, a food co-op in Pittsboro, NC where she's worked since 2021. Working at The Chatham Marketplace means Kirsha can make a difference in her community by helping to provide access to fresh, local goods while supporting regional farmers and other producers. Kirsha celebrates working in a place where she shares common values with employees and customers. Kirsha and her family have lived in Pittsboro since 2018. Nicole Villano is a Strategy and Development Manager for the National Cooperative of Grocers, a business service cooperative for retail food co-ops in the US. Prior to that she was the General Manager at Deep Roots Market in Greensboro, NC, where she still lives and works remotely. She earned an Anthropology degree from Appalachian State and is working on a Master’s in Sustainability at UNCG. Nicole also serves as Board President for Carolina Common Enterprise, a non-profit cooperative development agency. Nicole believes that food systems are unsustainable without cooperation and that local food economies are critical to our future.

The Hill and Chapelboro.com! Not only did your hometown radio station and daily local news source move to a brand-new location, but it also once again earned the honor of being Station of The Year and celebrated a milestone anniversary!

Art Chansky’s Sports Notebook is presented by The Casual Pint. YOUR place for delicious pub food paired with local beer. Choose among 35 rotating taps and 200+ beers in the cooler. For national radio day, here is my best of many WCHL moments. Despite doing work here for a part of five decades, I have […]

This week on "Howdy Hillsborough," Alexis and Eryk are joined by the fantastic Bob Burtman, president of WHUP in Hillsborough and host of the community radio station's flagship show, 3-D News, airing weekdays at 8 a.m.

On WCHL's 70th anniversary, we spoke with some of the station's most famous names, from owners to mayors to broadcasting legends.

WCHL has broadcast its AM radio signal to the Chapel Hill community for 70 years. Over that time, the radio station has had many homes.

This week’s Hometown Hero, presented by Hendrick Southpoint, is none other than 97.9 The Hill’s Ron Stutts. Stutts is heading into retirement after a legendary 43-year career of being the morning voice of 97.9 The Hill and waking up Chapel Hill. Stutts has been a familiar face in the local community, on stage at both […]