WNUR Rock Show
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| City | Evanston, Illinois |
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| Broadcast area | Chicago |
| Slogan | Chicago's Sound Experiment |
| Frequency | 89.3 MHz |
| First air date | May 8, 1950 |
| Format | Variety |
| ERP | 7,200 watts |
| HAAT | 30.0 meters |
| Class | B1 |
| Facility ID | 49779 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 42°3′12.00″N 87°40′33.00″W / 42.0533333°N 87.6758333°W |
| Callsign meaning | We're Northwestern University Radio |
| Owner | Northwestern University |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website |
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WNUR-FM (89.3 FM) is a 7200 watt radio station based in Evanston, Illinois that broadcasts to Chicago and its northern suburbs. It is the student radio station of Northwestern University.
WNUR first began broadcasting on May 8, 1948. It originally operated from a 10-watt transmitter that reached into portions of Skokie and Chicago.
Between 1982 and 1995, WNUR's slogan had been "The New Music FM."
Since 1995—the same year the station moved into new facilities in Northwestern's Annie May Swift Hall—WNUR's slogan has been 'Chicago's Sound Experiment.' (The station had previously broadcast from well worn facilities in the basement of the same building).
WNUR celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2000 with a reunion and special programming.
In March 2007, WNUR began broadcasting from new studios in John J. Louis Hall on Northwestern's Evanston Campus.
WNUR has also hosted many innovative radio programs over the years, including Airplay (a weekly program dedicated to local Chicago music), free-form experimental audio collage programming, weekly live radio comedies, and world-premiere live radio dramas written and directed by David Mamet.
Other current programming includes news, Continental Drift, Streetbeat, folk, WNUR Jazz Show, Hip-Hop, WNUR Rock Show, Classical & Beyond, and This is Hell.
WNUR Rock Show DJs are Northwestern University students who complete two quarters of apprenticeship and attend one academic year of weekly meetings to learn about the development of underground and experimental rock in Chicago and around the world. The Rock Show's mission is to provide a medium for otherwise unheard music through the airwaves of Chicago and on the Internet. The Rock Show specializes in independent, experimental and underground music. Its content features music from Chicago, across the country, and around the world. Rock DJs play no wave, punk, musique concrète, post-punk, noise, noise rock, and anything else that attempts to expand the boundaries of music. Notable Alumni include Steve Albini and the Arcade Fire's William Butler.
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