WIUX moves to Franklin Hall
WIUX 99.1 FM, IU’s student-run radio station, moved into a new studio in Franklin Hall on Monday.
The 950-square-foot facility comprises two studios — one for the FM station, and one for its online B-Side station — as well as a conference room and an office that doubles as a production room. Two television monitors will be mounted on the walls of the conference room with a live feed to the Sample Gates and surrounding walkways to simulate windows.
The studio also has full connectivity to the two audio studios in the Franklin Hall Commons, allowing DJs to broadcast from a total of four studios.
The station left the house it has occupied for three years at 715-717 E. Eighth St. It joins IU’s other student-run media outlets, the Indiana Daily Student newspaper, IU Student Television, Arbutus yearbook and Inside Magazine, all housed in Franklin Hall.
“All the student media are now in the same building – radio, TV newspaper,” said Jay Kincaid, director of facilities and technology for The Media School. “What it does is gives them the synergy to do this all together.”
Student radio at IU started in 1962, when WQAD, an AM station, was founded in Wright Quadrangle. The signal reached Teter Quadrangle, Read Center, Forest Quadrangle and the Graduate Residence Center. A second AM station, WFQR, went live from Forest Quadrangle in 1964 and broadcasted to Foster, McNutt and Briscoe quadrangles.
The two stations merged to become WIUS in 1967. WIUS’s first home was 617 E. 8th St., the site of the Mathers Museum of World Cultures.
The station spent 50 years on East Eighth Street. A fire destroyed the original WIUS house in 1972, and the station moved to 815 E. 8th St. In 2014, the station (now broadcasting on FM and renamed WIUX) relocated one block west to 715-717 E. 8th St., to make way for the construction of the new Phi Gamma Delta fraternity house.
WIUX will begin broadcasting from the new studio in August.
More:
- Learn more about and listen to WIUX.