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WFUV, 90.7 FM in New York City, is Fordham University's non-commercial radio station, with studios on campus and its 50,000-watt transmitter atop nearby Montefiore Medical Center. First broadcast in 1947, WFUV has an airstaff which includes such New York radio veterans as Pete Fornatale (who returned to WFUV in 2001 after a 30-year hiatus), Dennis Elsas, and Vin Scelsa. Other full-time air staff members include Rita Houston (music director and host of the program The Whole Wide World), Darren DeVivo, Claudia Marshall and Corny O'Connell.
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New York FM|90.7
718817-4550
Fordham University, Bronx, NY 10458-9993
WFUV, 90.7 FM in New York City, is Fordham University's non-commercial radio station, with studios on campus and its 50,000-watt transmitter atop nearby Montefiore Medical Center. First broadcast in 1947, WFUV has an airstaff which includes such New York radio veterans as Pete Fornatale (who returned to WFUV in 2001 after a 30-year hiatus), Dennis Elsas, and Vin Scelsa. Other full-time air staff members include Rita Houston (music director and host of the program The Whole Wide World), Darren DeVivo, Claudia Marshall and Corny O'Connell.

WFUV's rock music shows were formerly hosted by Fordham students and some of those famous alumni include Fornatale (whose first show began in November 1964, when he was a sophomore), former WFUV Program Director Bill Crowley of Air America Radio, Pat Dawson of NBC News, and Gary Stanley, sportscaster on WCBS-AM in New York City. Two went on to win Emmy Awards as directors of Sesame Street—Ozzie Alfonso and Edward May. Daily rock music programming was begun in February 1970 by then Program Director Lew Goodman. Prior to that the programming was a mix of classical (e.g., the Evening Concert show M-F 6:00 to 8:00 PM), popular and ethnic music (e.g., Bill Shibilski's 36+ year long Polka Party starting in 1965), and Fordham University sports broadcasts. Many chamber music and piano recitals were broadcast live from now-defunct Studio B in the 1950's.

WFUV was on the verge of going off the air in September 1968, due to budgetary cuts by the university, but the student-staff went on strike and organized rallies and demonstrations to save the station that were attended by thousands of students and faculty.

WFUV has been a professionally-managed public radio station since 1988. The station's broadcast audience expanded throughout the 1990's and 2000's, as local commercial stations gave up free-form and the playing of new artists. The station also offers an online archive of programming and several podcasts.

In 2005 the studios, offices, and transmitter moved from the third floor of Keating Hall on Fordham's Rose Hill campus in the Bronx, where it had been since 1947, to Keating Hall's basement. The move allowed the station to improve its equipment and gain more space. Its antenna was moved in 2006 from atop an unfinished tower on the Rose Hill campus (it was previously atop Keating Hall) to atop Montefiore Medical Center on Gun Hill Road, one of the highest locations in the Bronx.

On April 22, 2010, WFUV announced a new transmitter in the Newburgh/Beacon area. The new station is 94.5.

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