 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.