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WNYU saturates the airwaves with what is fresh and vital in new (and classic-stats) music. Drop out

10/31/2024

🚨BATTLE OF THE BANDS, NOV 19TH BE THERE🚨

Door at 8pm, in the Kimmel E&L Auditorium!

10/30/2024

.band LIVE ON NAS TODAY AT 4PM 🚨🚨🚨

Live on WNYU.ORG AND 89.1 FM

10/29/2024

1 pair of tickets being given away! They are performing at the Warsaw November 17th!

To enter:

1. Follow
2. Like this post
3. Tag your friend you wanna bring!

Good luck!!!

10/24/2024

STATIC-ID is back with special guest . Belgium’s finest eschews his signature artful synthpop for the perfect summer burnout soundtrack. From funk deep cuts to Chicago house classics and everything else around the world and in between, Bolis Pupul brings you a STATIC-ID right for any musical apocalypse you could find yourself in, now and forever.

Out NOW! You can find the set on our YouTube and SoundCloud. (Links are in bio!)

10/22/2024

.fforest live session on NAS TODAY @ 5PM!

Tune in at WNYU.ORG or 89.1 FM!

10/16/2024

live in NYC and we are giving away 3 pairs of tickets!!! To enter:

1. Follow
2. Like this post
3. Comment togging a friend who you want to bring!

GOOD LUCK!

10/02/2024

TODAY ON NAS! 📡

Tune in on WNYY.ORG or 89.1FM!

10/01/2024

🚨TICKET GIVEAWAY FOR .inc NY FEST 🚨

We are giving away a pair of tickets to this years .inc NYC fest! To enter:

1. Follow
2. Like this post
3. Tag your friend you want to bring!

GOOD LUCK!

09/30/2024

LIVE TOMORROW ON NAS! WNYU.ORG OR 89.1FM

09/30/2024

🚨 RESERV TODAY ON NAS 🚨

Go and check out both the live session and interview of Reserv today on WNYU.ORG or 89.1FM today at 6pm!

09/29/2024

Yo yo yo! Join WNYU’s Music Department for our first Reactive Primes zine meeting! We’ll be brainstorming our first edition of the semester and splitting up tasks so we can get started asap. Bring inspiration and other zines you like! And if you vibe, stay for our general music dept meeting at 7 :)

09/25/2024

AND LIVE TODAY ON NAS ON 89.1FM OR WNYU.ORG

09/25/2024

🚨DUSTER @ WEBSTER HALL GIVEAWAY🚨

We are giving away TWO PAIRS of tickets for on October 2nd! To enter:

1. Like this post
2. Share on your story
3. Follow us!

GOOD LUCK!

09/20/2024

🚨NARDWAUR TICKET GIVEAWAY🚨

We are giving away multiple pairs of tickets for at Webster hall on Sept 26th! To enter you will need to:

1. Like this post
2. Share on your story
3. Follow us!

GOOD LUCK!

09/17/2024

presents the station’s spring 2024 yearbook, directed by !! full video on our yt now :) follow for more member profiles posted regularly throughout the semester.

09/16/2024

WE GOT TWO IMPORTANT SESSIONS/INTERVIEWS TODAY ON NAS! Join us on 89.1 FM or WNYU.ORG at 4-7pm TODAY!

09/14/2024

Alive in the Basement session OUT NOW!

Check out the live session in the link in our bio!

09/13/2024

Very special live session + interview w/ ! Check on both the Alive in the Basement session and the article in the links in our bio!

09/13/2024

🚨TICKET GIVEAWAY🚨

live in NYC at the Bowery Ballroom Tuesday on Sept 17th! We are giving away 3 pairs of tickets! To enter like and share this post! Winners will be picked on the 16th!! Good luck!

09/08/2024

🚨JPEGMAFIA TICKET GIVEAWAY🚨

Jpegmafia will be at Terminal 5 this Saturday September 14th! We are giving away TWO PAIRS of tickets! Enter by liking and sharing this post on your instagram story. Winner chosen Friday 9/13! Good luck

09/08/2024

🎼 if y’all are thinking about joining WNYU… consider the music department! Scan the QR code at the end of this post to join!

09/04/2024

WNYU OPEN HOUSE THIS WEEK 📡

THURSDAY-SATURDAY 12-5

WEINSTEIN BASEMENT

08/26/2024

FALL NET SHOW APPLICATIONS OUT NOW! Click the link in our bio to apply!

08/04/2024

on the new afternoon show, Monday 4-7!

07/29/2024

Jordan Rakei set will air at 5pm today!! Huge thanks to and for making this happen 🤘

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Our History

WNYU started as the New York University Radio Club Workshop in 1949. The station broadcasted from studios in the basement of McCracken Hall at NYU’s then University Heights campus (now Bronx Community College) in the Bronx. The station used the call sign WNYU, but due to its carrier current signal, it was only accessible on campus. Meanwhile in the mid-1950’s, Bruce Morrow aka. Cousin Brucie, a student from NYU’s Communications Arts Group, started another carrier current station at NYU’s Washington Square Campus with the call sign, WCAG. While WNYU was started in NYU’s engineering school with a focus on training engineers to the technical responsibilities of radio, WCAG was founded by students studying journalism and communications.

In the early 1960’s the two stations merged to form the NYU radio network, WNYU. With a single telephone wire connecting each station, the students would alternate programming blocks between the studios in Manhattan and the Bronx. Currently, WNYU’s signal was only accessible on both NYU campuses, however, the students sought an FM signal.

With New York City’s airwaves crowded, the students of NYU finally found an open FM channel, 89.1fm. 89.1fm was (and is still) reserved for the United Nations, however, in 1964 the U.N. agreed to waive their rights. Since this was the last available FM channel in New York, the FCC held an open application for educational institutions. Two schools applied for the channel, New York University and Fairleigh Dickinson University. Each application had errors or was late, so the FCC held several meetings over the next few years to determine which school would be awarded the coveted frequency. An intense rivalry developed between the two schools as to who would become the owner of the frequency. Finally, in 1969 a rare timeshare was agreed upon. WNYU-FM would possess 89.1fm Monday through Friday 4pm to 1am, while WFDU took the rest.

WNYU-FM made its first broadcast on May 3rd, 1973 from its University Heights studios. A few months later, on the brink of bankruptcy, NYU was forced to sell its University Heights campus. Even though the school, it’s students, and WNYU studios moved, WNYU’s antennaremains at the University Campus as of today.

In 1980, WNYU became one of the first New York stations to switch its format to new wave. The station would host legendary musicians like U2, The Beastie Boys, Sonic Youth, Devo, Kurt Cobain, and many more who were starting out back then. Legend has it, some of MTV’s branding was based off WNYU promotional material. Many early VJs) like Martha Quinn, Tim Sommer, and others started out WNYU DJs. Flagship programs of WNYU like The New Afternoon Show, Hellhole, and Crucial Chaos also began in the 1980s.

WNYU began online streaming at wnyu.org in the late 1990’s. Well known DJ, Tim Sweeney), started his program, Beats in Space, on WNYU in 1999. The program has featured guests from James Murphy) to Jamie xx to Four Tet to others and still airs to this day on Tuesday nights. Through WNYU’s inception, the station’s management has been completely student-run. WNYU continues to air on 89.1fm from Monday-Friday 4pm to 1am, and on wnyu.org 24/7. Its current programming schedule is available online, and the station recruits students every semester.

You can listen to some of WNYU past interviews, live sessions, and historical recordings here.

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Address

5-11 University Place, Basement
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