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Meet Sadie Gust, the 2025 WXPN 24-Hour Song Challenge winner!
WXPN has produced its second free exclusive vinyl for Record Store Day 2024, showcasing the talents of ten Philly-area artists. How to get your copy: ...
PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia's premier public radio station WXPN is inviting listeners to vote in its 24-Hour Song Challenge. The public will choose their top three contenders from a group of 12 ...
A photographer who volunteered at WXPN radio faces federal child pornography charges for pictures he made during events hosted by the University of Pennsylvania's station. The indictment alleges ...
In the two weeks since World Cafe Live workers staged a walkout to protest their new management, nearly a dozen employees ...
WXPN will continue to present family events in support of our award ­winning Kids Corner radio program, such as kids’ music concerts, nature and environmental festivals, and the like.
WXPN is offering musicians another shot at public radio stardom with its returning 24-hour song challenge. The contest calls on Philly area songwriters to pen and record an original song in a ...
WXPN's Black Opry Residency supports and spotlights up-and-coming Black performers who make original music under the Americana umbrella, with roots in country, bluegrass, folk, blues, gospel, rock ...
WXPN producesWorld Cafe, public radio's most popular program of popular music that is distributed by NPR to more than 200 U.S. radio stations, and the Peabody Award-winning Kids Corner.
WXPN developed a small but loyal following while broadcasting on WXPH-FM 88.1 station in Harrisburg for a few years. That station was sold as part of the deal to purchase 88.7 FM, ...
You see, since Thursday, WXPN, a public radio station in Philadelphia, has been unfurling what its listeners chose as the 2,020 greatest-ever songs, based on a preferential balloting system that ...