North Carolina Central University's latest radio station signed on in August 1995, about 20 years after the nation's first black public radio outlet, WAFR, 90.3 FM, ceased broadcasting from the campus. WNCU has been a primarily jazz outlet from the start, having been given the extensive jazz collection of Chapel Hill's WUNC-FM. The station's first years were marked by some internal turmoil that sometimes made the papers. However, the new station was, and still is, very positively received by the Durham community and the Triangle at-large. WNCU's studios are located in the Farrison-Newton Communications Building on the Durham Campus, with a highly directional antenna located on Rose of Sharon Road in the city's northwestern reaches, the same tower once used by Duke University's WDBS-FM 107.1 (now WFXC)