WEFT 90.1 fm

listener-supported, volunteer operated, community radio since 1981

Update 6/1/23: Thanks to WEFT's hard working volunteers we are back on the air at 90.1 FM! Thanks to Jess and the good folks at the Lincoln Building for providing easy access to our equipment. Sorry for any inconvenience our short outage caused.

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Print & fill out our printable donation form and include it with your check. Make checks payable to WEFT, and mail them to:

WEFT
P.O. Box 1223
Champaign, IL 61824

Vehicle Donation

Donating your car, truck, van, SUV, boat, motorcycle, ATV, RV, trailer or airplane has never been easier! Visit the Vehicle Donation portion of our Support page for more info.

You can give CARS (Charitable Adult Rides & Services) a call at 1-855-500-RIDE or go through their online donation process and designate WEFT as the non-profit beneficiary.

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1981 -2023 over 41 years of Community Radio


WEFT's Rotational Underwriters

Rotational Underwriters

Visit our Community Partners page for the complete list. Thanks to all of them for their support over the years. Please support them by doing business with them


WEFT History and Info

Turf Club Floor Plan

You can read a short version of WEFT's history here

Interestingly back in 1937 the upstairs of WEFT's building 113 1/2 and Dave Monk's building 115 1/2 were a gambling establishment, the Turf Club aka Klemick's. Thanks to the Urbana Free Library Archives, here's a story about Champaign's Gambling Hotspots, the Turf Club was part of North Market Street's Gamblers Row

Joe Lex, was one of WEFT's Founders (and partly repsonsible for some of those vinyl records we have stored up in our attic). He recently dug up this little bit of WEFT History. Here's an early vision of what our Programming would be, Joe Lex - WEFT's 1981 Programming Vision

WEFT Video from the 90's
Clips of many WEFTies who helped make WEFT what it is today. How many do you recognize?

WEFT on Wikipedia


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Listen On Demand!

Two Week Music Archives are Back!

WEFT Spinitron Calendar

Thanks to our partners at Spinitron
many of our music shows will once again be archived

Go to our Spinitron Calendar page and click on any of the green colored shows. You'll be able to start an in-browser player.

Copyright restrictions require us to start all playbacks at the beginning of each show, and you can't jump forward or back. If you want to listen to part of the 2nd hour of the show, you have to wait till the player gets there.

Look for the in-browser player - click on the triangle to start playback.

Spinitron Ark player

Because of copyright restrictions music shows can only remain online for two weeks. They also can't be downloaded or podcast.


Public Affairs Archives!

Most of your favorite Public Affairs shows have been archived on a weekly basis by WEFT's own volunteers. We have archives of some shows going back to 2015.

Go to our Public Affairs page to listen to shows such as Disability Beat, Higher Ground, News From Neptune, Radio Free Labor and The Prairie Monk.


Media - Pics, Videos, Newsletters etc.

To see more, visit WEFT's Media Page


Our Fall 2022 Pledge Drive kicked off with WEFT Fest - Sunday October 2

What a wonderful day, the weather was beautiful. The music was outstanding. Thanks to everyone who came out and celebrated with us. Thanks for the generous donations!

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Thanks to Seven Saints for sharing their patio with WEFT, for all their great food and beverages, and their friendly staff.

Thanks to all the businesses and organizations that donated raffle prizes. We had fun handing out all those raffle items to the happy winners!

    Performers inluded:
  • Tom Cortese
  • Grupo Calle Verde
  • Ballet Folklorico
  • drOpsy
  • Reverend Robert

Antenna Video

In the spring of 2020 WEFT completed a project our volunteers had worked on for a couple years. Order a new antenna and get it installed on a new, taller tower. This video documents some of the project

Youtube Antenna Video

thanks to Mark Niswander for the video

You can view this and other WEFT related videos on our Youtube Page




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