General Info

WPGU is the fully commercial student radio station at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It is operational 24 hours per day, seven days a week. The station broadcasts rock music and other programming throughout Champaign and Urbana, Ill., and surrounding communities. WPGU went on the air in 1954. Originally broadcasting out of the basement of Weston Hall, a student dormitory, it is located in an office along Green Street in Champaign. The Illini Media Company owns WPGU, which is also known as 107.1 The Planet.