WUPS
WUPS is a 100 kW radio station broadcasting at 98.5 licensed to Harrison, Michigan and serving central and northern Michigan, with its chief focus on the Mount Pleasant area. The station, previously owned by Sindy Fuller, through licensee Bridge to Bridge, Inc., was acquired by Black Diamond Broadcast Group, LLC in 2015 and broadcasts a classic hits format. Black Diamond's purchase of both WUPS and sister station WTWS was consummated on February 4, 2015 at a price of $1.65 million.
The station signed on in 1961 to complement its sister station, WHGR 1290 (whose call letters stood for Houghton Lake/Grayling/Roscommon). In the beginning, the station, known as WJGS (for owners Jacob and Garnett Sparks), was 19,000 watts. In the 1960s, a fire destroyed the WJGS/WHGR studios right before Christmas. They ended up broadcasting from a trailer until a new building was built.
Throughout most of the 1960s and through the 1980s, WJGS was automated MOR. During the '80s, WJGS was also an affiliate of Casey Kasem's American Top 40 countdown show.
Podcasts:
Wups
by: Dr. Hook(D. Locorriere/B. Francis)
Can't cuss I forgot about that, so I can't do that n' more.
There's always something. I can't do one thing, I can't do this.
I can't even open my mouth, I can't can't talk.
What d'you mean I can?
The only time I d... man you... you really get to me man...
...I swear you really do man sometime ain't gonna screw...
whole back in ...I drive it all the time... you know...
...c'mon man you don't know anything about me...
I get a whole different impression of you
...well who the heck wouldn't man?...If somebody had done like,
like you do all the time...
Whenever I do wups
...oh it don't work so we gotta fix that now...
I get a whole different impression of you
...I would too man but won't you listen to me for one time?...
Look I used to do things for you but...
Whenever I do wups
...let me do it Ok. Its my time... I'm gonna do it...
'Cause if I'm emotional
I can't be emotional... Not now man c'mon...
Then I know you'll walk with me
And if I'm conversational
...who's conversational man?...just 'cause I wanna talk to somebody
don't mean...
I know you'll talk to me
...I'll talk to you man...
But when I'm straight
...I'm straight now can't you understand what I'm saying man?...
Don't you know it can't wait
...I can't either ...C'mon now...
I get a whole different impression of you
...who wouldn't man I get a different impression of you too man.
Whenever I, whenever I, whenever I do wups
...to say man, just say it... and I'll go man... I'll get my stet and
I'll go man... I'll split... I want all of you to hear it man... and I
want you to pay some attention to me for once in a while man... you dig it
...all of you man... you too Ron... every now and then you don't listen
to me right?...but after a while you say "Oh I heard something out the
corner of my ear... but I thought it was somebody else". But it was really
Bill... it was really Bill... you dig it... just like it was when I said
hey ah that other tune... what is it. that. the bra. ... Sittin' In The
Bar, right ...I told you that was gonna be a hit and it was, and still is,
and people still record it man... ain't nobody... every time I say something
man I catch you do it... you do it... I...I know your brain ol' man...
I know how it work ...you hear. You say uh oh... two month later I thought of that...