| City of license | Corry, Pennsylvania |
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| Broadcast area | Corry, Pennsylvania Union City, Pennsylvania Eastern Erie County, Pennsylvania |
| Branding | "Cool 1370 WHYP" |
| Slogan | "The Greatest Music of All Time" |
| Frequency | 1370 (kHz) |
| First air date | April 2, 1955 |
| Format | Oldies/Classic rock |
| Power | 1,000 Watts daytime 500 Watts nighttime |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 13967 |
| Callsign meaning | Pronounced as "whip" |
| Former callsigns | WWCB WOTR |
| Affiliations | ABC News Radio Motor Racing Network |
| Owner | Whiplash Radio, LLC of Pennsylvania |
| Webcast | WHYP Webstream |
| Website | WHYP Online |
WHYP (1370 AM) is an oldies/classic hits radio station licensed to Corry, Pennsylvania and serving Corry, Union City and eastern Erie County, Pennsylvania from studios on North Center Street (PA 426) in downtown Corry and a transmitter facility off of West Columbus Avenue (U.S. Route 6). It operates with unlimited hours, with 1,000 watts during the daytime, and 500 watts in the evening hours.
Owned by Whiplash Radio LLC of Pennsylvania, the station's format is oldies and classic hits, and also broadcasts a variety of local sports programming featuring Corry High School Beavers football, basketball, baseball and softball. In addition, WHTX serves as an affiliate for the Motor Racing Network's NASCAR coverage.
WHYP signed on in April 2, 1955 as WOTR. It moved to its current location on North Center Street over 30 years ago and become WWCB, standing for the local high school mascot, the "Corry Beavers".
As WWCB in the 70's, 80's and early 90's the station featured long time personalities Bruce Lewis, Ron Smith and Barry Warnshius, with country music first thing in the morning and modern top 40 hits the rest of the day. The station was owned by Erie broadcasting icon Art Arkelien, who also owned FM station WYSS in Sagertown.
After the station was sold in the 90's it became full service Power 1370 (Oldies), and was part of a two station network with WYNE in North East. WYNE is now owned by Mercyhurst College.
On September 2010, Vilkie Communications took over operations of the station changing it to match their "Cool" moniker, based off of "Cool 101.7" WMVL in Meadville. The station featured oldies from the 60's, 70's and 80's and took on the call letters WHYP, also formerly licensed to North East (and was the original callsign for the current WYNE).
On December 1, 2011, Whiplash Radio LLC signed an LMA/purchase agreement on WHYP, keeping the Cool name, and instituting a more tightly-programmed classic hits format. The station now features syndicated morning personality Charlie Tuna in mornings, Barry Warnshius in middays and station operator Chris Lash in afternoons.
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