WNDV-FM (92.9

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, "U93") is a

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broadcasting a

contemporary hit radio Contemporary hit radio (CHR, also known as contemporary hits, hit list, current hits, hit music, top 40, or pop radio) is a radio format common in many countries that focuses on playing current and recurrent popular music as determined by the Top ...

format. The station serves the

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, area. The station signed on in August 1962, with the call letters WNDU-FM; it was owned by the

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(from which the call sign was derived), along with WNDU (1490 AM) and

WNDU-TV WNDU-TV (channel 16) is a television station in South Bend, Indiana, United States, affiliated with NBC. Owned by Gray Media, it maintains studios on the campus of the University of Notre Dame, the station's founding owner, along State Road 933 ...

(channel 16). In its early years, WNDU-FM

simulcast Simulcast (a portmanteau of "simultaneous broadcast") is the broadcasting of programs or events across more than one resolution, bitrate or medium, or more than one service on the same medium, at exactly the same time (that is, simultaneously) ...

the programming of its AM counterpart.
Broadcasting Yearbook 1965
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Broadcasting Broadcasting is the data distribution, distribution of sound, audio audiovisual content to dispersed audiences via a electronic medium (communication), mass communications medium, typically one using the electromagnetic spectrum (radio waves), ...

, 1965. p. B-56. Retrieved May 7, 2019.
Broadcasting Yearbook 1970
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, 1970. p. B-73. Retrieved May 7, 2019. On July 16, 1971, the station switched to the

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"Hit Parade" format.
Broadcasting Yearbook 1975
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, 1975. p. C-66. Retrieved May 7, 2019. The station switched to its current

format on October 22, 1979.
Broadcasting Yearbook 1980
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, 1980. p. C-79. Retrieved May 7, 2019. The station changed its call letters to WNDV-FM, when it was sold by the university in November 1998, to Artistic Media Partners.

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