WEUP (AM)
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| City | Huntsville, Alabama |
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| Broadcast area | Tennessee Valley |
| Slogan | Huntsville's Heritage Station |
| Frequency | 1700 kHz |
| Translator(s) | 94.5 W233BR (Moores Mill) |
| First air date | March 20, 1958 (at 1600) |
| Format | Urban Contemporary Gospel |
| Power | 10,000 watts (day) 1000 watts (night) |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 87141 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 34°45′32″N 86°38′35″W / 34.75889°N 86.64306°W |
| Former callsigns | WEUV (2000-2006) |
| Former frequencies | 1600 kHz (1958-2006) |
| Owner | Broadcast One (Hundley Batts, Sr. & Virginia Caples) |
| Sister stations | WEUP-FM, WEUV, WEUZ, WHIY |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | weupam.com |
WEUP (1700 AM) is an urban contemporary gospel formatted radio station that serves Huntsville, Alabama, and the majority of the Tennessee Valley in North Alabama, United States. WEUP is dubbed "Huntsville's Heritage Station" because it was the first in the region to broadcast an urban format. It has an urban contemporary sister station called WEUP-FM. The station's studios and transmitter are both co-located along Jordan Lane (SR 53) in Northwest Huntsville.
WEUP is simulcast on WEUV (1190 AM) in Moulton, Alabama. The WEUP call letters were on the 1600 AM signal from 1958 until a 2006 re-alignment with co-owned WEUV (originally 1700 AM) and WHIY (originally 1190 AM).
WEUP began broadcasting on March 20, 1958, on a 1000-watt 1600 kilohertz (kHz) AM This transmitter was built by the Brennan/Benns group while building WVOK, WAPE, and WBAM. The station owned by Leroy and Viola Garrett, who became the first African-American owners of a radio station in the state of Alabama. WEUP first broadcast from a pink trailer in the grounds of Syler Tabernacle Church in Huntsville, before moving to its present studios on Jordan Lane. The station's format was a mixture of gospel music, sermons, news, and R&B, everyday from sunrise to 6 p.m.
Listeners of 1600 AM were able to hear a viable mix of gospel and soul music as well as news and public affairs catering to the interests of the Tennessee Valley's black population.
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