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WIUX

Bloomington, Indiana
Broadcast area	Monroe County, Indiana
Frequency	99.1 (MHz)
Branding	WIUX
Programming
Language(s)	English
Format	Variety
Ownership
Owner	Indiana University Student Broadcasting
History
First air date	June 4, 2007 (99.1 MHz) January 30, 2006 (100.3 MHz)
Former call signs	WIUS WQAX WIN WFQR WQAD
Former frequencies	100.3 (MHz)
Call sign meaning	W Indiana University WQAX
Technical information
Facility ID	123644
Class	L1
ERP	22 watts
HAAT	63.1 meters
Transmitter coordinates	39°10′17.00″N 86°30′58.00″W / 39.1713889°N 86.5161111°W / 39.1713889; -86.5161111 (WIUX)
Links
Webcast	Indiana.edu (320 kbit/s) Indiana.edu (256 kbit/s) Indiana.edu (128 kbit/s) Indiana.edu (32 kbit/s) Indiana.edu (16 kbit/s)
Website	http://wiux.org

WIUX-LP (99.1 FM) is a student-operated low power FM college radio station in Bloomington, Indiana, United States. The station is owned by Indiana University Student Broadcasting with the slogan 'Pure Student Radio'.

Operation

WIUX is completely operated by student volunteers currently enrolled at Indiana University. There are no paid employees or faculty supervisors. It has two broadcast streams, one traditional stream that is duel broadcast on their LP-FM 99.1 as well as online, and the other steam called 'B-Side' is online only.

WIUX is run by a student board of directors who facilitate the different committees and programs of the station. Elections for the board of directors occur yearly in the spring for the following school year. Committees include music, PR, marketing, programming, news, special events, sports and engineering.

History

• 1963 - WQAD, a carrier current AM radio station was founded in Wright Quadrangle at Indiana University,^[1] with a frequency of 730 kHz. WQAD beamed its programming to Wright Quadrangle, Teter Quadrangle, Read Center, Forest Quadrangle and what was then known as the Graduate Residence Center or GRC for the first time on 730 AM via carrier current throughout Wright Quad on January 5, 1963. The station was started by physics major Bill Weaverling,^[2] chemistry major Steve Peterson, and education major Jerry Pugh.
• 1964 - WFQR Radio, also a carrier current AM radio station, was founded in Foster Quadrangle; the call letters stood for "Foster Quadrangle Radio." Its programming was beamed to the dormitories along Fee Lane, including Foster, McNutt and Briscoe Quadrangles.
• 1965 - WFQR Radio changed its call letters to WIN, and continued to operate from Foster Quadrangle.
• 1966 - At times during the 1966-67 school year, each station originated a "network feed" which was sent to the carrier current transmitters of all wired student housing. At other times for this final school year, WIN and WQAD maintained separate programming.
• September 1967 - The two stations merge to form WIUS Radio, still strictly a carrier current operation. It was supposed to be at 620 kHz in all student housing, but until the end of carrier current operations, some transmitters continued to operate at 730 kHz. The original WIUS studios were located at 617 E. 8th St., today the site of the Mathers Museum of World Cultures. The building, a two-story brick house, once belonged to a Bloomington mayor and to legendary Indiana University swimming coach James "Doc" Counsilman. All IU undergraduate dormitories are wired, and an ambitious plan to wire graduate housing and IU fraternities and sororities is unveiled; little of this plan is ever accomplished.
• October 10, 1972 - On the first day of National Fire Prevention Week, a pre-dawn fire destroyed the original WIUS studios. The fire was arson, set in at least two locations, the sales office at the front of the building and the administrative offices in the rear; the person or persons responsible have never been arrested. For one week, WIUS programming aired from a spare studio of the Indiana University Radio and Television Service. WIUS then relocated until Spring Break of 1973 to the old Elliott House WQAD studios, using salvaged and borrowed equipment, records that survived the fire and records from student DJ collections.
• March 1973 - WIUS moves over spring break from Elliott House into a house at 815 E. 8th St., two blocks from the previous WIUS house.

• September 1973 - The IU Student Broadcast Corporation, a not-for-profit student corporation, creates a new radio station, WQAX, partly out of frustrated efforts to get WIUS onto the off-campus cable TV system; the attitude of one IU administrator towards the idea was quoted at the time as "Students shouldn't be talking to townspeople."^[3] Many of the first WQAX programmers were former WIUS members, and the two stations maintained a friendly rivalry as WIUS finally gained access to its own cable FM frequency. The former WQAD call letters could not be assigned as they were used as the FCC-licensed American Broadcasting Company affiliate on TV channel 8 in Moline, Illinois.
• Spring 1974 - In addition to carrier current, WIUS begins to air its programming on the local Bloomington, Ind., cable TV system, then owned by Monroe Cablevision, at 95.1 mHz. Broadcasts to IU dormitories and a select number of fraternities and sororities (notably Alpha Epsilon Pi, Evans Scholars and the houses surrounding them) remained carrier current, although after 1977 the carrier current system was allowed to deteriorate and reception was often spotty or absent in certain dormitories.
• 1973 to 1993 - WQAX, identified on-air as "Quacks," was a college/community access radio station at 100.3 MHz (non-broadcast) on the local cable TV system in Bloomington, Ind. Originally operating from an office in the Indiana Memorial Union, supplied by the IU Student Association, which assisted in its founding as an alternative to the then-tightly formatted contemporary hit rock WIUS programming, WQAX studios moved several times during its 20-year life.