WFDU
| City | Teaneck, New Jersey |
|---|---|
| Frequency | 89.1 MHz (also on HD Radio) |
| First air date | August 30, 1971 |
| Format | FM/HD1: Public Radio Eclectic Music Oldies HD2: Jazz HD3: Classical |
| ERP | 3,000 watts |
| HAAT | 195 meters (640 ft) |
| Class | B1 |
| Facility ID | 20458 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 40°57′39.00″N 73°55′23.00″W / 40.9608333°N 73.9230556°W |
| Callsign meaning | W Fairleigh Dickinson University |
| Owner | Fairleigh Dickinson University |
| Website |
www hd2 hd3 |
WFDU (89.1 MHz) is a non-commercial, college radio station licensed to Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, New Jersey. Founded in 1971, WFDU's studios are on campus, with its transmitter on the Armstrong Tower in Alpine, New Jersey. Following negotiations with New York University and the Federal Communications Commission, an agreement was reached for the two Universities to share the 89.1 frequency on the FM band. While WFDU and WNYU-FM share the frequency, each station maintains separate transmitter and studio facilities as well as discrete programming and personnel.
The station’s broadcast signal has up to a 60-mile radius of its transmitter, within the historic Armstrong Field Lab in Alpine. The AFL is the site of the world’s first FM station, W2XMN, built by the creator of FM technology, Major Edwin Howard Armstrong. And, with an increase in antenna height and a power rise to 3,000 watts, WFDU-FM has a potential to reach to 8.2 million people. In August 2015, WFDU launched two new HD channels: HD2, which is called "Jazz & What's More" for Jazz music, and HD3, which is called "Masterworks" for Classical music.
On August 30, 1971 at Noon, WFDU began broadcasting to the New York region and became a laboratory for students of Fairleigh Dickinson University to learn the art and craft of broadcasting. While WFDU must share 89.1 FM with WNYU, and can only broadcast 50% of the week, the station can be heard on line 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Because of the popularity of “on-line” and smartphone listening, WFDU (FM) was able to offer up and quickly fill all the time slots that normally fell into the periods when its transmitter was off the air and WNYU-FM was using the 89.1 FM frequency. The web and app stream carry programming that runs the gamut from Jug Band Music to New Jersey Sounds to various Blues, Rock & Soul shows. WFDU is on iHeartRadio, iTunes Radio, TuneIn.com, and on the WFDU (FM) website, wfdu.fm.
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