The News team is responsible for finding stories, interviewing sources and creating written articles accompanied by audio productions.

WHUS Sports travels across the country, providing play-by-play updates, covering UConn men's and women's basketball and football.

In addition to their on-air productions, WHUS hosts multiple concerts at UConn each semester, exposing the community to unique bands and artists.

[7] On April 30, 1936, WCAC's license was voluntarily surrendered for cancellation,[8] due to frustrations over restricted operating hours and constant frequency and power changes mandated by the Federal Radio Commission (FRC) and its 1934 successor the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), that made it impossible for the college to achieve its goal of developing a state-wide educational service.

Representatives from the University of Connecticut traveled to Brown to investigate the idea, and decided to establish a station at their main campus.

In February 1940 the Intercollegiate Broadcasting System (IBS) was formed to coordinate activities between twelve college carrier current stations and to solicit advertisers interested in sponsoring programs geared toward their student audiences, with the University of Connecticut as one of the charter members.

[15] The station was initially funded by the Student Senate, but in the fall of 1941 became financially independent by selling airtime to advertisers.

[14] A May 1943 review of the "Husky Network" stated that the station was operating from 7:00-8:30 a.m. and 5:00-11:00 p.m. Monday through Friday, for a total of 37½ hours per week.

In 1963 twenty-four-hour-a-day broadcasting was started on WHUS (AM) with the use of 24-inch (61 cm) automatic reverse tape reels that provided 6 hours of programming.

In 1957 the university received a license for a 10-watt non-commercial FM station operating on 90.5 MHz, which was now formally issued the WHUS call letters by the FCC.

In the mid-1970s student managers decided to operate the station 24 hours a day year round, adding non-student volunteers to staff and produce programs.

In 2006 the station's website, WHUS.org, acquired a new design and a schedule database system, which allowed dynamic displays of currently playing and upcoming shows.

At the 2014 Intercollegiate Broadcast System Awards in NYC, WHUS Studio Sessions won "Best Live Performance" and "Most Creative Program."