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History

WFMU first went on the air in April, 1958, and was formerly affiliated with Upsala College, in East Orange, New Jersey. Shortly before the closing of Upsala College on May 31, 1995, WFMU purchased its license from Upsala, and is now fully independent. It relocated in August, 1998 to Jersey City, NJ, into a building which the station purchased with donations from listeners. WFMU's license is now owned by Auricle Communications, a nonprofit group made up of current and former WFMU staff members and listeners. WFMU has a relay station, WXHD, in Mount Hope, New York, broadcasting at 90.1 MHz FM in the Hudson Valley, NY, the Lower Catskills, NY, Western New Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania. Upsala College in 1902. ... is the 151st day of the year (152nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full 1995 Gregorian calendar). ... Location of Jersey City within New Jersey. ... For the magazine, see Hudson Valley (magazine). ... Catskill State Park as seen from Overlook Mountian The Catskill Mountains are an extension of the Appalachian Mountains into New York State. ... Official language(s) English de facto Capital Trenton Largest city Newark Area  Ranked 47th  - Total 8,729 sq mi (22,608 km²)  - Width 70 miles (110 km)  - Length 150 miles (240 km)  - % water 14. ... Capital Harrisburg Largest city Philadelphia Area  Ranked 33rd  - Total 46,055 sq mi (119,283 km²)  - Width 280 miles (455 km)  - Length 160 miles (255 km)  - % water 2. ...

Philosophy

WFMU has a stated commitment to "hype free", non-commercial freeform broadcasting. All programming is controlled by the individual DJ, and is not beholden to any type of station-wide playlist or rotation schedule. In its most general form, a playlist is simply a list of songs. ... In radio broadcasting, a spin is a single play of a song. ...

Experimentation, spontaneity and humor are among the station's most frequently noted distinguishing traits.

Funding and Operations

WFMU refuses all corporate sponsorship and government funding ("on general principle"^[2]), as well as any type of underwriting from private foundations and other educational or public institutions. The station's annual operating budget is approximately USD $1,000,000, and is fully funded by its listeners through an annual 14-day on-air fundraising marathon (WFMU is unusual in its philosophy that on-air fundraising drives only take place once a year, unlike most other public and listener supported stations which have multiple pledge drives throughout the year), as well as a Fall record fair and other events. All DJs are unpaid volunteers (except for the Monday-Friday morning DJ, Nachum Segal), a few of which have been with the station since the 70s and 80s. The United States dollar is the official currency of the United States. ... Bold textNachum Segal has been the host of the radio show JM in the AM since September of 1983. ...

Programming

WFMU's programming ranges from flat-out uncategorizable strangeness to rock and roll, lots of "alternative" (although no DJ on the station would ever call it that), psychedelia, experimental, obscure 50s-60s blues, unpopular jazz, R&B, soul, reggae, hot-rod music, 78's, 8-tracks, twee, indie pop, schlock-a-billy, hip-hop, electronica, hand-cranked wax cylinders, punk rock, exotica, downtown art music, radio improvisation, cooking instructions, Old Noise, classic radio airchecks, found sound, comedy, call-in shows, anti-fascist lectures, off-kilter kids' music, interviews with obscure radio personalities, interviews with notable science-world luminaries, spoken word mish-mashes, Andrew Lloyd Webber soundtracks in languages other than English, Gospel and Country and western music. The station also hosts a "Listener Hour" every Saturday morning, where any WFMU listener can try their hand at DJ'ing live on the air. WFMU's Music and Program Director is Brian Turner. Rock and roll (also spelled Rock n Roll, especially in its first decade), also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. ... Alternative rock (also called alternative music or simply alternative; known primarily in the UK as indie) is a genre of rock music that emerged in the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s. ... Psychedelia is a term describing a category of music, visual art, fashion, and culture that is associated originally with the high 1960s, hippies, and the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco, California. ... For experimental rock music, see experimental rock. ... Blues is a vocal and instrumental form of music based on the use of the blue notes and a repetitive pattern that most often follows a twelve-bar structure. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... Rhythm and blues (or R & B) is a musical marketing term introduced in the United States in the late 1940s by Billboard magazine. ... For other uses, see Soul music (disambiguation). ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... It has been suggested that Childrens gramophone records be merged into this article or section. ... The 8-track cartridge or Stereo 8 is a magnetic tape technology for audio storage, popular from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s. ... This article is about the genre of music. ... Indie rock is a subgenre of rock music often used to refer to bands that are on small independent record labels or that arent on labels at all. ... Hip hop music is a style of music which came into existence in the United States during the mid-1970s, and became a large part of modern pop culture during the 1980s. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Electronic music. ... The earliest method of recording and reproducing sound was on phonograph cylinders. ... Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ... Martin Dennys breakthrough album, Exotica Exotica is a musical genre, named after the 1957 Martin Denny album of the same title, popular during the late 1950s to mid 1960s typically with the suburban set who came of age during World War II. The musical colloquialism exotica means tropical ersatz... This article is about the broad genre of classical music in the Western musical tradition. ... In the radio industry, an aircheck is generally a demonstration recording, often intended to show off the talent of an announcer or radio disk jockey to a prospective future employer. ... Found art, or more commonly and less confusingly, Found Object (French: objet trouvé) is a term used to describe art created from common objects not normally considered to be artistic (also assemblage). ... A talk show (U.S.) or chat show (Brit. ... David Emory is an American talk radio host and personality. ... Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber (born 22 March 1948) is a highly successful English composer of musical theatre, and also the elder brother of Julian Lloyd Webber. ... Gospel music is a musical genre characterized by dominant vocals (often with strong use of harmony) referencing lyrics of a religious nature, particularly Christian. ... Country music, once known as Country and Western music, is a popular musical form developed in the southern United States, with roots in traditional folk music, spirituals, and the blues. ...

Recognition and Cultural Influence

WFMU was named "Best Radio Station in the Country" by Rolling Stone magazine for four consecutive years (1991-1994), and has also been dubbed the best radio station in either NYC or the US by The Village Voice, New York Press, and CMJ, among others. The station also won three awards ("Best Specialty Programming", "Most Eclectic Programming", and "Music Director Most Likely To Never Sell Out") at the 2006 CMJ College Radio Awards. This article is about the magazine. ... The Village Voice is a weekly newspaper in New York City featuring investigative articles, analysis of current affairs and culture, arts reviews and events listings for New York City. ... New York Press is a free alternative weekly in New York City. ... College Media Journal, commonly known as CMJ, is a music events/publishing company most famous for its annual festival in New York City, the CMJ Music Marathon, as well as a weekly magazine of and for the music industry and college radio stations in the United States and Canada. ...

A New York Times Magazine feature article called WFMU "a station whose name has become like a secret handshake among a certain tastemaking cognoscenti", and cites Velvet Underground founder Lou Reed, The Simpsons creator Matt Groening, filmmaker Jim Jarmusch and playwright Eric Bogosian as avowed fans of the station. The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ... The Velvet Underground and Nico (from left to right: John Cale, Nico, Lou Reed, Sterling Morrison, and Maureen Tucker) The Velvet Underground (Affectionately known as The Velvets, or V.U. for short) was an American rock and roll band of the late 1960s. ... Lewis Allan Lou Reed[1] (born March 2, 1942 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American rock singer-songwriter and guitarist. ... Simpsons redirects here. ... Matthew Abram Groening (born February 15, 1954[2] in Portland, Oregon;[3] his family name is pronounced ) is an Emmy Award-winning American cartoonist and the creator of The Simpsons,[4] Futurama and the weekly comic strip Life in Hell. ... Jim Jarmusch Jim Jarmusch (born January 22, 1953 in Akron, Ohio) is a noted American independent film director. ... Eric Bogosian Eric Bogosian (born on April 24, 1953) is an American actor, playwright, monologist, and novelist. ...

Other notable fans and supporters of WFMU include Neutral Milk Hotel frontman Jeff Mangum, screenwriter/director Ethan Coen, MAKE magazine editor-in-chief and Boing Boing co-founder Mark Frauenfelder, Led Zeppelin lead singer Robert Plant, musician Suzanne Vega, artist Cindy Sherman, indie rock superstar Ted Leo, Sonic Youth guitarists Lee Ranaldo^[3] and Thurston Moore, comic book artist and writer Evan Dorkin, The Cars vocalist/record producer Ric Ocasek and television talk-show host Conan O'Brien. This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Jefferson Nigh Mangum, or Jeff Mangum is the founder and driving force behind what was the band Neutral Milk Hotel and one of the cofounders of the Elephant Six Collective. ... Joel and Ethan Coen, commonly called The Coen Brothers in the film business, are United States directors best known for their quirky comedies like Fargo and Raising Arizona; the brothers write their own scripts and alternate top billing for the screenplay. ... Make (or MAKE) is a quarterly magazine published by[1] OReilly Media which focuses on do it yourself (DIY) projects involving computers, electronics, robotics, metalworking, woodworking and other disciplines. ... 1990 Boing Boing logo, from a t-shirt Boing Boing (originally bOING bOING) is a publishing entity, first established as a magazine, later becoming an award winning group blog. ... Mark Frauenfelder Mark Frauenfelder is a weblogger, illustrator, and journalist. ... Led Zeppelin were an English rock band that formed in September 1968. ... Robert Anthony Plant (born August 20, 1948, West Bromwich, West Midlands, England) is an English rock singer and songwriter, most famous for his membership in the rock band Led Zeppelin, but also for his successful solo career. ... Suzanne Vega (born Suzanne Nadine Vega, 11 July 1959, Santa Monica, California) is an American songwriter and singer known for her highly literate lyrics and eclectic folk-inspired music. ... Theodore Francis Ted Leo (born September 11, 1970, in South Bend, Indiana) is an American punk rock singer, songwriter and guitarist. ... Sonic Youth is a seminal American alternative rock group formed in New York City in 1981. ... Lee Ranaldo at Ilosaarirock 2003 Lee Ranaldo (b. ... Thurston Joseph Moore (born July 25, 1958 in Coral Gables, Florida) is an American musician best known as a singer and guitarist for Sonic Youth. ... Evan Dorkin is an American comics artist. ... The Cars were an American rock band, fronted by Ric Ocasek, that emerged from the early punk scene in the late 1970s. ... Ric Ocasek (born Richard Otcasek on March 23, 1949, in Baltimore, Maryland) is the former vocalist and frontman for The Cars and a producer for several other groups, including Bad Brains and Suicide. ... Conan Christopher OBrien (born April 18, 1963)[1] is an Emmy-winning American comedian, writer and television personality best known as host of NBCs late-night talk/variety show Late Night with Conan OBrien. ...

WFMU is credited for playing a large part in the early-90s resurgence of the Exotica and Lounge music phenomenon, via WFMU DJ Irwin Chusid and his role in the re-issue of the music of Esquivel. Chusid also popularized the acceptance of "outsider music" as a genuine musical genre, through his weekly (and now defunct) Incorrect Music show on WFMU. The discovery and popularization of "outsider" artists such as Jandek and The Langley Schools Music Project can be directly attributed to Chusid and his programming on WFMU. Martin Dennys breakthrough album, Exotica Exotica is a musical genre, named after the 1957 Martin Denny album of the same title, popular during the late 1950s to mid 1960s typically with the suburban set who came of age during World War II. The musical colloquialism exotica means tropical ersatz... Lounge music refers to music played in the lounges and bars of hotels and casinos, or at standalone piano bars. ... Irwin Chusid, based in Hoboken, New Jersey, is a record producer, journalist (Film Comment, Mojo, The New York Times, Mix, New York Press, Pulse), and self-described landmark preservationist who once stated, I find things on the scrapheap of history that I know dont belong there and salvage them. ... Juan García Esquivel (January 20, 1918 – January 3, 2002) often known as simply Esquivel!, was a Mexican band leader, pianist, and film composer. ... Music sample: True Love will Find You in the End ( file info) — Sample of Daniel Johnstons True Love will Find You in the End Problems listening to the file? See media help. ... Jandek is the musical project of an outsider musician who operates out of Houston, Texas. ... Hans Fenger and Wix-Brown Elementary School LP, 1977 The Langley Schools Music Project is a collection of childrens chorus recordings made from 1976-77 by Canadian music teacher Hans Fenger in a school gymnasium in Langley, British Columbia, near Vancouver. ...

The name of the indie-rock sub-genre now known as "Lo-Fi" music originated at WFMU in the 1980s, with DJ William Berger's weekly program, "Lo-Fi." Lo-fi is a subgenre of indie rock which uses lo-fi recording practices. ...

The Air America Radio show The Majority Report had its origins on WFMU in 2003, when Janeane Garofalo and Sam Seder appeared as guests on The Best Show on WFMU with Tom Scharpling, and as a result of the appearance, were later approached by Air America Radio to host their own show on the fledgling "liberal" radio network. Air America Radio is a talk radio network and program syndication service in the United States. ... The Majority Report is a show on Air America Radio, hosted by Janeane Garofalo and Sam Seder. ... Janeane Garofalo (born September 28, 1964 in Newton, New Jersey), is an American stand-up comedian, actress, political activist, writer and former co-host on Air America Radios The Majority Report. ... Sam Seder (born November 28, 1966) is a comedian, writer, actor, film director, television producer-director, and Air America Radio host. ... Tom Scharpling is a supervising producer and writer for the television series Monk, on the USA Network. ... American liberalism—that is, liberalism in the United States of America—is a broad political and philosophical mindset, favoring individual liberty, and opposing restrictions on liberty, whether they come from established religion, from government regulation, from the existing class structure, or from multi-national corporations. ...

Although WFMU has traditionally eschewed news-oriented programming, the station volunteered its airwaves in September, 2001 to become the temporary home in the New York area for Amy Goodman's Democracy Now! program (which was renamed Democracy Now! In Exile), after it was "banished" from WBAI and the Pacifica Radio Network during a highly controversial "coup" of WBAI's station management by Pacifica's national Board of Directors. Amy Goodman on Democracy Now! Amy Goodman (b. ... Democracy Now! is an independent, award-winning news and opinion radio program airing on over 300 stations across North America every weekday, as well as both satellite television networks. ... The WBAI studios on the 10th floor of 120 Wall Street, Manhattan WBAI is a non-commercial, listener sponsored New York radio station, located at 99. ... Pacifica Radio is a network of five independent, non-commercial, listener-supported radio stations in the United States that is known for its leftist and pacifist political views. ...

In a similar example of its support of community broadcasting, WFMU began voluntarily hosting the webcast of legendary New Orleans Jazz station, WWOZ, when its studio and transmitter were destroyed in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in August 2005. WFMU also took online donations on behalf of WWOZ, raising over $70,000 towards the rebuilding of the station. The word webcast is derived from web and broadcast. Its use has varied since the early-mid 1990s as the nature of the medium came into public use. ... New Orleans is the largest city in the state of Louisiana, United States of America. ... WWOZ is a non-profit community-supported radio station in New Orleans, Louisiana broadcasting at 90. ... Lowest pressure 902 mbar (hPa; 26. ...

WFMU also received worldwide attention in May of 2001, when national and international media outlets covered DJ Glen Jones's successful attempt to break the Guinness World Record for longest consecutive radio broadcast, staying on the air a full 100 hours, 41 seconds. The Guinness Book of Records (or in recent editions Guinness World Records, and in previous US editions Guinness Book of World Records) is a book published annually, containing an internationally recognized collection of superlatives: both in terms of human achievement and the extrema of the natural world. ...

Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain was shown reading WFMU's (now defunct) Catalog of Curiosities, on the set during taping breaks of their famous 1993 appearance on MTV Unplugged^[4]. Nirvana was an American rock band that formed in Aberdeen, Washington. ... Kurt Donald Cobain (Aberdeen, Washington, USA; February 20, 1967 – c. ... MTV Unplugged is a series showcasing popular musical artists playing acoustic instruments. ...

An infamous 1990 telephone performance on WFMU by Daniel Johnston was the primary inspiration for filmmaker Jeff Feuerzeig to create the documentary film, The Devil and Daniel Johnston. The film won the award for Best Documentary Director at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival. Daniel Dale Johnston (b. ... The Devil and Daniel Johnston is a 2005 documentary by Jeff Feuerzeig about the life and music of Daniel Johnston, which won the Directors Award at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival. ... The Sundance Film Festival is a film festival in the United States, and ranks alongside the Cannes, France, Venice, Italy, Berlin, Germany, and Toronto, Canada festivals as one of the most prestigious in the world. ...

The late Jeff Buckley made his radio debut on WFMU in late 1991 and returned numerous times before signing with Columbia Records and achieving international stardom. Jeff Buckley (November 17, 1966 – May 29, 1997), born Jeffrey Scott Buckley and raised as Scotty Moorhead,[1] was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. ... Columbia Records is the oldest brand name in recorded sound, dating back to 1888, and was the first record company to produce pre-recorded records as opposed to blank cylinders. ...

In 2006, WFMU was awarded of a grant from the New York State Music Fund, a program created by the Office of the New York State Attorney General to make contemporary music of all genres more available and accessible to diverse audiences and within New York State. WFMU's grant included funds to create a podsafe online music library, to be called The Free Music Archive, which will be launched in late 2008. The Fund grew out of settlements with major recording companies investigated for violating state and federal laws prohibiting "pay for play" (payola). Grant winners were chosen on criteria that included, among other things, their record of broadening awareness of artists, genres or styles with limited access to commercial broadcast or other mass distribution vehicles.^[5] It has been suggested that Pay to Play#In Music be merged into this article or section. ...

Notable WFMU DJs

The station's past and present on-air DJ lineup includes many notable people from the world of art, music and television, including:

• Andy Breckman, creator of the USA Network TV series, Monk, and former Saturday Night Live and Late Night with David Letterman comedy writer
• Gerard Cosloy, co-founder of Matador Records and former manager of Homestead Records
• Laura Cantrell, country musician and Matador Records recording artist
• DJ Rupture, critically acclaimed DJ and breakcore producer.
• Billy Jam, underground hip-hop icon and Hip Hop Slam founder
• Jason Forrest, electronic music recording artist
• Tom Scharpling, Monk executive producer/writer (who also self-released the first Portastatic single in 1993, and was a contributing writer for The Onion)
• R. Stevie Moore, Nashville-born pioneer of DIY home recording
• Chris Tsakis (aka Chris T), the host of the daily call-in show Freewheeling, on Sirius Satellite Radio.
• Irwin Chusid, author (Songs in the Key of Z, and two books about artist Jim Flora) and record producer (Raymond Scott, Esquivel, The Langley Schools Music Project, etc.)
• Monica Lynch, longtime president of Tommy Boy Records, and A&R advisor for Queen Latifah
• Steve Stein, highly influential hiphop sampler and mixmaster (Double D and Steinski; Steinski and Mass Media)
• Jeff Mangum, Neutral Milk Hotel founder and frontman
• Vicki Bennett (a.k.a. People Like Us), experimental musician/recording artist
• Kenneth Goldsmith (air name: Kenny G), author, UbuWeb founder, conceptualist, dadaist, journalist, exhibitionist and UPENN professor.
• Bronwyn Carlton, comic book writer (Catwoman, The Big Book of Death, Books of Faerie)
• Vin Scelsa, longtime NYC broadcaster
• Glen Jones who held the world record for the longest continuous radio broadcast by an individual (over 100 hours set May, 28 2001)
• Wildgirl (b. Ericka Peterson), Hot Rod Diva and creator of the popular "Go-Go-Rama" shows
• Dave Mandl, Writer and Editor (Semiotext(e)/Autonomedia, The Wire, The Brooklyn Rail)
• Nachum Segal, Host of Jewish Moments In The Morning
• Bill Zebub, heavy metal DJ who also does the humorous character "Professor Dum-Dum"

It should be noted that while the station does air a DJ with the name "Mike Lupica", this is not the sportswriter of the same name. Andy Breckman (born March 3, 1955) is the creator and executive producer of the television series Monk, on the USA Network. ... USA Network is a popular American cable television network with about 89 million household subscribers as of 2005. ... Monk is an Emmy Award winning television show about the private detective Adrian Monk (Tony Shalhoub), afflicted by Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and multiple phobias. ... Saturday Night Live (SNL) is a weekly late night 90 minute American comedy-variety show based in New York City that has been broadcast live by NBC on Saturday nights since October 11, 1975. ... Late Night with David Letterman was a nightly hour-long comedy talk show on NBC hosted by David Letterman. ... Gerard Cosloy ran Homestead Records in the 1980s; DJd at WFMU; played in the group Air Traffic Controllers, and later founded Matador Records. ... Matador Records is a record label, famous for a roster of highly-respected indie rock artists and bands. ... Homestead Records is a New York City based sublabel of Dutch East India Trading. ... Laura Cantrell Laura Cantrell is a country singer and DJ from Nashville, Tennessee. ... Matador Records is a record label, famous for a roster of highly-respected indie rock artists and bands. ... DJ /rupture is the pseudonym of Jace Clayton, a New York-based breakcore producer and DJ. He used to play in the drum and bass collective Toneburst, and DJed in Boston during the late 1990s. ... Jason Forrest is an electronic music producer known for noisy experimental electronica and breakcore. ... Tom Scharpling is a supervising producer and writer for the television series Monk, on the USA Network. ... Monk is an Emmy Award winning television show about the private detective Adrian Monk (Tony Shalhoub), afflicted by Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and multiple phobias. ... This article, image, template or category should belong in one or more categories. ... The Onion is a United States-based parody newspaper published weekly in print and daily online. ... Robert Steven Moore (born January 18, 1952) is an American singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. ... See also: DIY Network, a cable TV network. ... Chris T. (born Chris Tsakis, in 1962, Amityville, Long Island) is a former WFMU deejay. ... Irwin Chusid, based in Hoboken, New Jersey, is a record producer, journalist (Film Comment, Mojo, The New York Times, Mix, New York Press, Pulse), and self-described landmark preservationist who once stated, I find things on the scrapheap of history that I know dont belong there and salvage them. ... James (Jim) Flora, ca. ... Raymond Scott, 1937 Raymond Scott (born Harry Warnow, September 10, 1908 – February 8, 1994), was an American composer, orchestra leader, pianist, engineer, recording studio maverick, and electronic instrument inventor. ... Juan García Esquivel (January 20, 1918 – January 3, 2002) often known as simply Esquivel!, was a Mexican band leader, pianist, and film composer. ... Hans Fenger and Wix-Brown Elementary School LP, 1977 The Langley Schools Music Project is a collection of childrens chorus recordings made from 1976-77 by Canadian music teacher Hans Fenger in a school gymnasium in Langley, British Columbia, near Vancouver. ... Tommy Boy Records is a record label started in 1981 by Tom Silverman after borrowing $5000 from his parents. ... Also see the Arab singer Latifa Dana Elaine Owens (born March 18, 1970 in Newark, New Jersey) is a Grammy-winning American rapper/singer, model, and Academy Award-nominated actress. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Jefferson Nigh Mangum, or Jeff Mangum is the founder and driving force behind what was the band Neutral Milk Hotel and one of the cofounders of the Elephant Six Collective. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... People Like Us (Vicki Bennett) creates audio-visual collage using sampling and found footage. ... Kenneth Goldsmith (1961- ) is an American poet. ... UbuWeb is an internet museum that showcases all strains of the avant-garde including poetry, music, film, sound art, ethnopoetics, and outsider arts. ... Catwoman is a fictional character associated with DC Comics Batman franchise and created by Bill Finger and Bob Kane. ... Vin Scelsa (born December 12, 1947) is the host of a free-form radio show known as Idiots Delight. ... Wildgirl (born Ericka Peterson, Jan. ... Bold textNachum Segal has been the host of the radio show JM in the AM since September of 1983. ... Bill Zebub is the top manager of Bill Zebub Productions. ... Heavy metal (sometimes referred to simply as metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s. ... Mike Lupica (born 1952) is an American newspaper columnist. ...

One other WFMU DJ of particular note was Danny Fields, who hosted a nightly show on the station in 1968 and 1969. Fields was an A&R man and fixture in the New York rock and roll scene, managing and signing acts such as the MC5, The Stooges and The Ramones. During that period, WFMU was the first station to play the music of The Velvet Underground, The MC5 and The Stooges in the New York area. Danny Fields is mostly known for his influence and contribution to punk rock music via management. ... In the music industry, Artists and Repertoire (A&R) refers to the division of a record label that is responsible for scouting and artist development. ... MC5 (short for Motor City Five) was a hard rock band formed in Detroit, Michigan, USA in 1964 and active until 1972. ... The Stooges 1969 debut Not to be confused with The Three Stooges. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... This article is about the American rock band. ...

Online Broadcasting and Blogging

Along with its traditional radio broadcast, WFMU is also broadcast live over the internet in a wide variety of streaming formats (including Ogg), and all programming is archived on the WFMU website in 128k MP3 format for two weeks, then permanently thereafter in RealAudio format. Streaming media is multimedia that is continuously received by, and normally displayed to, the end-user while it is being delivered by the provider. ... This page is about the audio compression codec. ... MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3, more commonly referred to as MP3, is an audio encoding format. ... RealAudio is a proprietary audio format developed by RealNetworks. ...

In 2005, WFMU expanded its online broadcasting efforts by offering 15 hours a week of Internet-only live programming ("free of the FCC's incomprehensible language restrictions", explains WFMU Station Manager Ken Freedman), as well as an independent 24 hour-a-day webcast of Nachum Segal's Jewish Moments In The Morning program. The abbreviation FCC can refer to: Face-centered cubic (usually fcc), a crystallographic structure Federal Communications Commission, a US government organization Farm Credit Corporation/Farm Credit Canada, a Canadian government organization Families with Children from China, an adoption support organization Florida Christian College, a college in central Florida Fresno City... Ken Freedman is the current General Manager of WFMU, a freeform radio station. ...

In January 2006, WFMU announced that it is making the station's live stream and archives available to cellular phones and other Mobile devices running the PocketPC or Palm operating system. Handheld devices (also known as handhelds) are pocket-sized computing devices that are rapidly gaining popularity as the access to information in every walk of life becomes more and more mission critical. ... A Pocket PC is a computer in a handheld size that runs a variation of the operating system Windows CE. It has many capabilities of modern desktop PCs. ... Palm OS is a compact operating system developed and licensed by PalmSource, Inc. ...

Podcasts of 23 WFMU shows (some exclusive to the podcast itself) are also available. Podcasting is a way of publishing sound files to the Internet, allowing users to subscribe to a feed and receive new audio files automatically. ...

The official WFMU blog, WFMU's Beware of the Blog, was launched in 2004, and has become very popular even among non-WFMU listeners. Original content from the WFMU blog is regularly featured on the front pages of high-traffic pop-culture blogs such as Boing Boing and MetaFilter. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... 1990 Boing Boing logo, from a t-shirt Boing Boing (originally bOING bOING) is a publishing entity, first established as a magazine, later becoming an award winning group blog. ... MetaFilter, known as MeFi to its members, is a community weblog whose purpose is to share links and discuss interesting websites. ...

Trivia

• WFMU was featured in a 2003 Macworld magazine article, describing the station's innovative use of a remote controlled iPod as a backup music source at one of its transmitter sites.^[6]

• References to WFMU frequently appear in the television series, Monk. The names of WFMU DJs Ken Freedman, Terre T and The Stork have been used for characters in several episodes of the show.^[7]

See also: Media of New York City

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References

External links

• WFMU web site
• WFMU's Beware of the Blog
• WFMU podcasts
• WFMU's Flickr photoset
• "WFMU: The Eclectic Little Radio Station That Could--And Does", New York Post, June 3, 2001
• An interview with WFMU station manager Ken Freedman on The Rock and Roll Report
• "No Hits, All the Time": New York Times article on WFMU (April 11, 1999)
• "WFMU Exposé by Theresa Stern", Perfect Sound Forever
• "A brief history of Freeform Radio," WFMU's Lowest Common Denominator magazine
• "N.J. station keeps Crescent City radio afloat," Nashua Telegraph online
• WFMU's page on StylusCity
• Query the FCC's FM station database for WFMU
• Radio Locator information on WFMU