WFUV Names Chuck Singleton Interim General Manager
Rock and roots radio WFUV (90.7 FM), Fordham University’s member-supported station, has announced that longtime station manager Ralph Jennings will assume the role as director of internal and external relations on June 30. Chuck Singleton, currently the station’s program director, will then be named interim general manager for WFUV.
(l-r) WVUF's Ralph Jennings and Chuck Singleton
Jennings took over WFUV in 1985, and turned the student-run operation into a thriving public radio station in the process. Licensed to Fordham University for over 60 years, the station now mixes a professional staff of 27 with more than 90 paid interns.
Under Jennings, the station has grown from a weekly audience of 80,000 to more than 300,000 listeners and more than 20,000 members. He also updated WFUV’s physical plant to include state-of-the-art studio facilities, and upgraded WFUV’s transmission facilities so that its signal is heard much more widely throughout the New York metropolitan area.
Singleton, with 30 years of experience in public radio as a programmer, host, producer and contributor to stations and national programs, joined WFUV in 1987 as its first director of news and public affairs. While in that post, he developed WFUV’s coverage of community issues and its student training programs, and created and hosted the program Cityscape. In the past year, Singleton has served on WFUV’s strategic planning committee, and was recently named its chair.
In addition, Singleton has directed WFUV’s programming since 1992, including recruiting its on-air staff and expanding its schedule of Adult Album Alternative (or “Triple A”) music programming. He led the development of WFUV’s indie music service, “The Alternate Side,” with startup support from the New York State Music Fund.
