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WNYU is New York University's radio station, completely operated by NYU students. WNYU’s studios are located in the basement of Weinstein Residence Hall. WNYU’s transmitter is located at University Heights in the Bronx, the former location of NYU. WNYU broadcasts on 89.1 FM with an effective radiated power of 8,300 watts on weekdays from 4:00 PM to 1:00 AM, and on the Internet 24 hours a day, 7 da
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05/17/2022
After being buried for way too many years… WNYU ZINES ARE BACK, BABY! The WNYU Spring 2022 Zine: REVIVAL is officially out now!! Brought to you by WNYU’s Archives Department and Archives Director Jonathan Schatzberg (@jonschatzberg). Featuring content from station members at all of our departments, from management to engineering to sports to Net / FM Music DJs. Playlists, drawings, poetry, prose, collages, older zine fragments, trains of thought, brain goo, and more. Come to the station to get your own copy, and/or feel free to download the 80 (EIGHTY!) page zine yourself in the linktree in our bio. Feel free to print and fold it yourself, or SEND US (in a non-creepy way, we promise) your first and last name & address w/ zip-code, via an Instagram DM or an email to [email protected], and we can send you a copy ourselves. You do not have to be a NYU student to receive a zine. Sneak a peek. Okay, that’s all. Bye. For now.
05/16/2022
tune in tomorrow at 9pm for an exclusive interview with Puerto Rican artist @enyelc_ on Son del Caribe with @cameliagrams and @cachomania_ hear about his favorite tracks, New Orleans, the moshing experience, Rosalía, and the Puerto Rican music scene.
05/03/2022
Tune into Female Hysteria this Thursday from 11-12pm for the last show of the semester featuring an interview with Bratmobile's Molly Neuman, who will be speaking on the show!
04/28/2022
dj zhen interviews irish shoegaze stars @justmustard about their new album heart under. listen to them discuss pinterest moodboards, yorgos lanthimos, and signature scents on venice lockjaw!
04/17/2022
coming to your screens this Monday….. @punchlovemusic @viz_wel @jonschatzberg
04/16/2022
merch design submissions are open! its sticker season. please submit your best works to the link in our bio and maybe just maybe we (the station) will pick it!! designs must include “WNYU 89.1”, more details on the form >:) SUBMISSIONS CLOSE APRIL 24
04/13/2022
congratulations to wnyu’s very own aria young @aria.yq for winning @npr ‘s college podcast challenge!! her entry “what’s in a name” was selected as the grand prize winner from 10 finalists. aria will be on the rundown tonight to talk about her experience & she has a brand new episode of her podcast @ed.and.ari airing!! WE ARE SO PROUD OF YOU ARIA LOVE YOU
04/12/2022
Tunnel One Radio features strictly the best in foundation and roots Jamaican music, spanning the late 1950s through the early 1990s. From Jamaican jazz, rhythm and blues, and folk musics, through ska, rocksteady, roots reggae, and early dancehall, Tunnel One intends to educate, stimulate, and motivate, via the world's most powerful revolutionary music. Tune in tonight at 10:30 PM
04/11/2022
Check out an exclusive backstage interview with @keetiebee on tomorrow’s New Afternoon Show!
Kate Bollinger tells us about her new EP “Look at it in the Light” releasing April 22, her songwriting journey, and much more!
Streaming on 89.1 fm and wnyu.org tomorrow at 6pm EST on The New Afternoon Show! Tune in! Hosted by @ismcmahon
04/09/2022
🚨🚨new pod alert 🚨🚨camelia @cameliagrams and jack @ajaxlp are on Saturdays 4-5 pm to TALK about music!!! this episode discusses Radiohead’s In Rainbows, The Strokes’ Comedown Machine, with special guests and all your favorite little wnyu things. see u there! 🐟🐠🐡
03/30/2022
TONIGHT! at 8 tune into this weeks latest episode of WHAT THE NEW YORK?! with Ed&Ari. co-hosted by Aria Young and Ed Wang !!
03/29/2022
need something to taste? something to smell? something to listen to? 5 Senses is back this week on wednesday 3/30 during our podcast block on wnyu.org and 89.1fm!!!! now u have something to listen to😎
03/24/2022
Monday on NAS--Jack Peterson welcomes NYU's hottest shoegazers Punchlove for a live, in-studio performance! They'll play four as-yet-unreleased tracks exclusively for the New Afternoon Show! Live on March 28th and available afterwards on WNYU's SoundCloud and YouTube!
03/15/2022
Tune into Five Senses on 89.1 FM this Wednesday night (3/16) for a Women's History Month special.
03/11/2022
join haru nemuri — an innovative poetry rap/noise pop/indie rock artist from yokohoma japan — as wnyu’s alekah laing interviews her about her upcoming album, shunkaryougen! airing live on FM around 4 PM EST on the new afternoon show, and available via the wnyu youtube afterwards!
03/09/2022
Malware Mausoleum broadcasting thursdays from 8-10 am nyc. underground electronic 2 melt ur mind only on wnyu.org. see u in the tomb !
03/08/2022
Next Monday on the New Afternoon Show, Jack Peterson sits down for an exclusive interview with indie legends LOW! Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker, the two founding members, will discuss their new Grammy-nominated album HEY WHAT, their 2022 international tour, and how they really feel about the genre they're often credited for creating...slowcore (sigh)....! Tune in from 4-7 on March 14th and stay glued to soundcloud.com/wnyu for the full interview!
03/07/2022
today was a big day for cool people
03/06/2022
congratulations to grace, izzy, misty, and nina on their wins at the IBS Media awards for their outstanding work at wnyu!!!!! and congratulations to everyone nominated ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥 always remember we have a lot of clout.
03/01/2022
Tune in at 7:50pm on Wednesday for ep 9 of Five Senses, where Nia will rank her top five spots to grab food on a budget (Part 2!) only on wnyu.org 89.1 fm 🤤
02/24/2022
today, feb 24th, dj zhen yu speaks with magdalena bay about their mercurial world album! tune in to NAS from 4-7 to listen to them discuss art angels, scott pilgrim, and the legend of zelda: twilight princess, or watch our soundcloud and youtube after the airing!
02/21/2022
Monday, March 7th--Jack Peterson welcomes the incredible frontman of indie rock's hottest young act, Pinegrove— Evan Stephens Hall! Evan will join Jack on the New Afternoon Show for an exclusive interview to talk the new album 11:11 and its political themes, the band's first national tour since COVID, and those utterly mysterious lyrics he's so famous for. Tune in on wnyu.org or 89.1FM and stay tuned to our SoundCloud afterwards for the full audio!
02/20/2022
MONDAY on The New Afternoon Show! Jack Peterson welcomes the FIRST post-COVID in-studio performance at WNYU--The Backfires! Ahead of their historic Mercury Lounge headlining gig (This Wednesday, February 23, 9pm), The Backfires join Jack in the studio to play three exclusive songs, TWO of which are being played for the FIRST TIME!
Check out one of the hottest young bands in NYC before they take off! Audio available on our SoundCloud and video coming soon to YouTube!
02/17/2022
venice lockjaw is back! tune in thursday nights to hear dj zhen spinning great under-the-radar post-punk cuts, with an emphasis on non-american and non-british origins. interviews with contemporary bands to come ʕ •ᴥ•ʔ
02/15/2022
This Wednesday February 16th tune into Five Senses for a very special Black History Month edition of the show! only on WNYU
02/13/2022
Introducing Heckle Mic @hecklemic on wnyu.org! Come heckle and riff along with the Valentines edition of the comedic roast battle pod! Stream it Mondays and Fridays at 11:30 am🎤🔥
02/12/2022
check out andrea’s interview with singer-songwriter @annabelleoyl this sunday the 13th. annabelle’s latest EP comes out Monday the 14th!!!!!!! &an unreleased song will preview during the show!! starts at 9pm & interview airs at 10pm 🧸 only on @bathtimerave
02/09/2022
tune into season 2 episode 1 of Celeb Relationships: How do you deal with an ex that wants your attention? This episode will focus on Rihanna and A$AP Rocky moving on to the next phase of their relationship, and an upset ex Drake vying for Rihanna’s attention.
02/09/2022
tune into this semesters first episode of NYWho? tonight (wednesday the 9th) at 8:20 pm on wnyu.org and 89.1 fm 😎😎
02/01/2022
This Wednesday--WNYU's talk block returns with SEVEN all-new episodes! Tune in at 7pm on 89.1 and wnyu.org to hear WNYU's best podcasters discuss everything from movies to politics and everything in between! All episodes will be available on our Soundcloud right after they broadcast!
01/24/2022
Monday, February 7th at 4pm, Jack Peterson welcomes the legendary Phil Elverum to the New Afternoon Show! Elverum is best known for his trailblazing work in the lo-fi indie genre through his bands The Microphones and Mount Eerie, and his intensely personal lyrics and genre-bending style have inspired many of today's biggest artists. Phil will sit down with Jack for an exclusive interview to talk about his 25-year career, his newly released Microphones retrospective box set, his U.S. Tour as The Microphones (starting 2/17 and coming to NYC 3/8) and where he goes next with his various projects! Tune into 89.1 FM, wnyu.org, or soundcloud.com/wnyu to listen!
01/16/2022
wnyu.org on your wavelengths and on your walls 😎 AND in your ears! tune in at 89.1 fm (weekdays 4pm to 1am) or any time at all on wnyu.org🚨🚨🚨
01/10/2022
The Rundown Report! Wednesdays at 7pm, News Department heads Jack Peterson and Grace Wanebo host an all-new show before NYU returns from break! Hear in-depth discussions about the most important and controversial stories in the local and national news, with your humble hosts sharing their analysis of the state of our city in these trying times. Plus, contributions from the Rundown's legendary reporting team! Tune in every week
of winter break for a new episode, and don't miss the first one, already available on Podcast Platforms and www.soundcloud.com/wnyu.
01/02/2022
happy new year from wnyu! from remote to the studio back to remote …and hopefully back in the studio soon!!! cant wait to see what this year brings 😚📻❤️🔥
12/31/2021
Apply for YOUR OWN PODCAST! Applications are now open for the Spring Semester, so if you've always dreamed of hearing your own voice on the radio and broadcasting your thoughts on any variety of topics, now's your chance!!! Spots are limited for this semester, so send in your best idea and get in while you still can! Form link in bio!
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Set your calendars! Goddess Complex aka @cloudpowers is coming onto @insightfulmedia.biz for a very special, out of this world set! Listen in at WNYU.ORG // 89.1 FM in the NY-area or watch on YouTube (10:30-11:30 pm)!
BENEE @beneemusic chats with @bri.kiwi about her newest projects and guest DJs her favorite mix of songs she’s been digging in isolation on the Sound Between. Tune in to hear the interview with her, her isolation playlist, and, of course, her own songs from 2-4 pm EDT on Tuesday, May 26 at wnyu.org
Class of 2020, this is in fact a pretty f***ed up situation, but still, you graduated! we graduated! holy hell! Over the past four years you’ve populated this sacred family space and put some of the weirdest and rebellious content out there on the air. You made friends, you stayed in the basement wayyyy too long, emerging to a whole different kind of sun, you failed to get any homework done, and maybe you even fell prey to some stupid station drama…. You’ve shown your personality while out for seshes on the mews and down in the pit of the glove or the dance (rip to both heroes of the college music scene). You’ve made us proud everywhere you went and while we could always count on a familiar face in the crowd, lately it got a lot easier to spot you in those bright yellow hoodies. You played pranks and demonstrated your genius (or showed that you were just plain nosey if you found our crypt). We’ll miss the family style food, the make outs and pass outs on the couch, the haircuts in studio, hide and seek in our archives, the SH*T TON of graffiti on the walls right next to our 7 dirty words list, shouted on air in full every 10 pm at the start of safe harbor hours, and the regular callers (some of which may or may not have purchased a manatee in our name). We’ll miss the deplorable, grotesquely lit Weinstein bathrooms and those things that happened in there during late night shows of which we promised to never speak of again. We won’t miss being hungry and on a budget but we will miss our freshmen and sophomore angels who always had a meal swipe to spare and hope that the tradition will carry on. We’ll miss the archives and its hidden treasures and being on the air in a physical station in general. But most of all, we’ll miss each other and the space we inherited and left behind. To future generations, take good care of it. You won’t understand how much it means until your time is up. To those moving on, never forget your roots, never forget your family, college radio
Great news! We’ve reopened our net radio apps and have a few more spots on our grid to fill. Link in that bio, you know what to do #join #collegeradio
You have two days left to apply for net radio! fall into that wiki hole and do your research; think time, place, community, genre. More info in our story highlights and the link to apply in bio🔗
You have two days left to apply for net radio! fall into that wiki hole and do your research; think time, place, community, genre. More info in our story highlights and the link to apply in bio🔗
@bodegabruja is having a wild birthday weekend in the @redbull car, spinning some tracks at this year’s strawberry fest!
📹 creds to: @swamisound
Catch Orions Belte on NAS this Tuesday from 4-7 pm with guest dj @keenankush ! Tune in for a chance to win a copy of their limited edition vinyl, “Mint”
Sound of Ceres Coming Soon to WNYU
Hess Is More Coming Soon to WNYU
Thomash (VOODOOHOP) and R Vincenzo from São Paolo are making their radio debut on Aquatic Themes tonight! They are both from the collective VOODOOHOP and will DJ a completely live 'sample battle' set.
Going down from 10:30pm-1am. 89.1 FM///wnyu.org
https://soundcloud.com/thomash_voodoohophttps://soundcloud.com/rvincenzo
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.
A song for beer lovers. Appreciate a listen. And consider for your station playlist.
Tune in to WNYU Radio this Friday for a special episode of Against the Vile Grain that'll include the debut of a track from Agape, the next release in the Apostate Electronics series. There will also be some tracks from the massive P.A.I.N. in New England compilation, so if you've been sleeping on picking up a copy you can get a peek at what you're missing out on.
On the interview side of things, we discuss abuse in the Jehovah's Witnesses, finding & building community in noise, P.A.I.N., and a whole lot more. It was an absolute pleasure chatting with them & I hope yall dig it.
Super cool of Arni at WNYU Radio 89.1 FM (NY) for spinning ‘Rain Hat Day’ during this amazing show! Check it! Big thanks from LUPER DUPREE!🙏🤘🙏
I tried to listen online for the first time in a while, but I can no longer do it. It doesn't work on either Microsoft Edge or Mozilla Firefox.
Psyched to find out Isabel at WNYU Radio 89.1 FM (NY) featured ‘Virtual Rockstar Digital Superstar’ first up on this cool show which was on my birthday, how neat! Big 🙏 from LUPER DUPREE!!!
Driving through the NYC area today, we picked up WNYU for the first time and absolutely adored the New Afternoon Show! Are there playlists archived anywhere? That was some inspired mixing going on and my husband, daughter and I all enjoyed it. Thank you for making the George Washington Bridge traffic way more bearable!
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#throwbackthursday is here and taking a look back to this party in New York in the 1990s with my late friends Romanthony and DJ Camacho. Roman and I struck up a fellow-Virgo-friendship and he would bring me test pressings of his latest Black Male Records releases for me to play on my Club 89 radio show on WNYU Radio . In fact one time he came up for an interview and spun a few tunes which you can hear at https://www.mixcloud.com/colleencosmomurphy/playlists/cosmo-1990s/
It’s so interesting to hear us talk about what the New York City house scene was like at that time - bringing people together and #keepinghousemusicalive
