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WFUV
WFUV (90.7 FM) is a non–commercial radio station licensed to New York, New York. The station is owned by Fordham University, with studios on its Bronx campus and its antenna atop the nearby Montefiore Medical Center. WFUV first went on the air in 1947. It became a professional public radio station in 1990 and is one of three NPR member stations in New York City. Its on-air staff has included radio veterans Dennis Elsas, Vin Scelsa, Pete Fornatale, and Rita Houston.
Founded in 1947 by Fordham University, WFUV became a student-run 50,000-watt station in 1968–1969 before transitioning to a public station during the late 1980s. WFUV is a National Public Radio affiliate. The station's call letters stand for "Fordham University's Voice." Though operated as a professional public radio station, WFUV's mission also includes a strong training component for Fordham students. Students receive intensive instruction and are heard on the air in news and sports programming. The station is known for its adult album alternative (AAA) format – a mix of adult rock, singer songwriters, world and other music, formerly branded as "City Folk" as well as Celtic music.
The station serves 375,000 weekly listeners in the New York area and 100,000 more worldwide on the web each month. As of January 2021, WFUV is the third most popular station in any rock music format in the New York market after WAXQ and WNYL. In terms of weekly audience, it is the most listened to noncommercial alternative music station in the United States. Of all noncommercial stations regardless of format, it is the third most popular in the New York market (after WNYC and WQXR) and 22nd most popular nationally (as of May 2018).
Outside of its weekday AAA programming, WFUV airs a variety of specialty shows, which include genres such as folk music and early pop and jazz. National programs heard on WFUV, as of 2021, include World Cafe, The Grateful Dead Hour, and The Thistle and Shamrock. Since 1974 the station has maintained a program called Ceol na nGael, a Sunday tradition of airing a mix of Celtic music accompanied by Fordham University programming during the day and eclectic folk in the evening. In-studio interviews and performances are also a prominent feature of its programming.
WFUV was founded in 1947 by Fordham University's communication department. Early programming was a mix of classical, popular, ethnic music and the university's sports broadcasts. Many chamber music and piano recitals were broadcast live from now-defunct Studio B in the 1950s. The station also broadcast a long-running series of live Sunday classical broadcasts from The Ethical Culture Society in Manhattan.
WFUV was on the verge of going off the air in September 1968 due to budgetary cuts by the university, but the students and staff went on strike, organizing rallies and demonstrations to save the station. Around this time, the station became part of the school's Student Affairs division, which was run by students. It had been a 3,500-watt station from its inception until February 21, 1969, when its effective radiated power was increased to 50,000 watts. WFUV's daily rock music programming also began in the late 1960s.
WFUV began broadcasting in stereo on March 31, 1973. In the mid-1980s, the station began to transition to a professionally-operated public station "to increase its public service and community impact". WFUV has been a professional noncommercial radio station since 1990. To be more competitive in the New York market at this time, it introduced a more folk and alternative music sound under the name "City Folk", as well as news/talk radio elements such as weather and traffic reports. The station also adopted the nascent adult album alternative format. This shift was overseen by longtime general manager Dr. Ralph Jennings and program director Chuck Singleton.
In May 1994, Fordham started building a 480-foot-tall (150 m) transmission tower for WFUV on its Rose Hill campus, directly across from the New York Botanical Garden (NYBG)'s Enid A. Haupt Conservatory. The NYBG, which did not know about the tower's construction, subsequently requested that construction of the tower be halted. Construction was delayed for several months before the New York City Department of Buildings ruled that the tower could be built 25 feet (7.6 m) away from its originally proposed location. However, both the NYBG and Fordham disagreed with the proposed compromise. In 1997, the FCC ruled that the tower would negatively affect the NYBG if it were finished, but a New York state court upheld its legality. In 2002, Montefiore Medical Center offered to move WFUV's antenna to its own facilities on Gun Hill Road, one of the highest locations in the Bronx, and Fordham agreed. Fordham subsequently announced in 2004 that it intended to destroy the half-built tower on Rose Hill.
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WFUV
WFUV (90.7 FM) is a non–commercial radio station licensed to New York, New York. The station is owned by Fordham University, with studios on its Bronx campus and its antenna atop the nearby Montefiore Medical Center. WFUV first went on the air in 1947. It became a professional public radio station in 1990 and is one of three NPR member stations in New York City. Its on-air staff has included radio veterans Dennis Elsas, Vin Scelsa, Pete Fornatale, and Rita Houston.
Founded in 1947 by Fordham University, WFUV became a student-run 50,000-watt station in 1968–1969 before transitioning to a public station during the late 1980s. WFUV is a National Public Radio affiliate. The station's call letters stand for "Fordham University's Voice." Though operated as a professional public radio station, WFUV's mission also includes a strong training component for Fordham students. Students receive intensive instruction and are heard on the air in news and sports programming. The station is known for its adult album alternative (AAA) format – a mix of adult rock, singer songwriters, world and other music, formerly branded as "City Folk" as well as Celtic music.
The station serves 375,000 weekly listeners in the New York area and 100,000 more worldwide on the web each month. As of January 2021, WFUV is the third most popular station in any rock music format in the New York market after WAXQ and WNYL. In terms of weekly audience, it is the most listened to noncommercial alternative music station in the United States. Of all noncommercial stations regardless of format, it is the third most popular in the New York market (after WNYC and WQXR) and 22nd most popular nationally (as of May 2018).
Outside of its weekday AAA programming, WFUV airs a variety of specialty shows, which include genres such as folk music and early pop and jazz. National programs heard on WFUV, as of 2021, include World Cafe, The Grateful Dead Hour, and The Thistle and Shamrock. Since 1974 the station has maintained a program called Ceol na nGael, a Sunday tradition of airing a mix of Celtic music accompanied by Fordham University programming during the day and eclectic folk in the evening. In-studio interviews and performances are also a prominent feature of its programming.
WFUV was founded in 1947 by Fordham University's communication department. Early programming was a mix of classical, popular, ethnic music and the university's sports broadcasts. Many chamber music and piano recitals were broadcast live from now-defunct Studio B in the 1950s. The station also broadcast a long-running series of live Sunday classical broadcasts from The Ethical Culture Society in Manhattan.
WFUV was on the verge of going off the air in September 1968 due to budgetary cuts by the university, but the students and staff went on strike, organizing rallies and demonstrations to save the station. Around this time, the station became part of the school's Student Affairs division, which was run by students. It had been a 3,500-watt station from its inception until February 21, 1969, when its effective radiated power was increased to 50,000 watts. WFUV's daily rock music programming also began in the late 1960s.
WFUV began broadcasting in stereo on March 31, 1973. In the mid-1980s, the station began to transition to a professionally-operated public station "to increase its public service and community impact". WFUV has been a professional noncommercial radio station since 1990. To be more competitive in the New York market at this time, it introduced a more folk and alternative music sound under the name "City Folk", as well as news/talk radio elements such as weather and traffic reports. The station also adopted the nascent adult album alternative format. This shift was overseen by longtime general manager Dr. Ralph Jennings and program director Chuck Singleton.
In May 1994, Fordham started building a 480-foot-tall (150 m) transmission tower for WFUV on its Rose Hill campus, directly across from the New York Botanical Garden (NYBG)'s Enid A. Haupt Conservatory. The NYBG, which did not know about the tower's construction, subsequently requested that construction of the tower be halted. Construction was delayed for several months before the New York City Department of Buildings ruled that the tower could be built 25 feet (7.6 m) away from its originally proposed location. However, both the NYBG and Fordham disagreed with the proposed compromise. In 1997, the FCC ruled that the tower would negatively affect the NYBG if it were finished, but a New York state court upheld its legality. In 2002, Montefiore Medical Center offered to move WFUV's antenna to its own facilities on Gun Hill Road, one of the highest locations in the Bronx, and Fordham agreed. Fordham subsequently announced in 2004 that it intended to destroy the half-built tower on Rose Hill.