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WFMU receives absolutely no corporate or government funding. They are 100% funded by listeners through an annual on-air fundraising marathon as well as a fall record fair and other events.

WFMU was named Best Radio Station in the Country by Rolling StoneThis article is about the music magazine. For the rock band, see The Rolling Stones. Rolling Stone is a music and music industry magazine that was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and music critic Ralph J. Gleason (Wenner is still editor an magazine and, has also been dubbed the best radio station in either NYC or the US by The Village VoiceThe Village Voice is a popular New York City weekly newspaper, featuring investigative articles, society, current affairs, culture, and listings for New York City. It was the first and is arguably the best known of the so-called alternative weeklies arts-, New York PressThe New York Press is the conservative alternative weekly competitor to the Village Voice in New York City. In the late 1990s the publication forced the Village Voice to become a free paper to compete. Until 2004, the paper was edited by Russ Smith who wr, and CMJ , among others. Additionally, the station has been showcased in a New York Times Magazine feature article. Many newspapers and magazines also covered WFMU DJ Glen Jones's successful attempt to break the Guinness World Record for longest consecutive radio broadcast by staying on the air a full 100 hours.

WFMU's programming ranges from flat-out uncategorizable strangeness to pure rock and rollRock and roll also called rock is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony backing), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. As a cultural phenomenon,, lots of " alternativeThe term alternative rock or alternative music 1 was coined in the early 1980s to describe bands which didn't fit into the mainstream genres of the time. A catch-all phrase for modern rock and similar genres, it includes indie, post-punk, hardcore punk, G," psychedeliaPsychedelia is a style of music, visual art, fashion, and culture that is associated originally with the high 1960s, hippies, and the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco, California. It generally began in 1966, but truly took off in 1967 with the, experimental, obscure 50's-60's blues, R&B, soul, hot-rod music, 78's, 8-tracks, twee indiepop, schlock-a-billy , " electronica", exotica, Downtown art music, Radio Improvisation, dopey but kick-ass call-in shows, off-kilter kids' music, interviews with obscure radio personalites, interviews with notable science-world luminaries, spoken word mish-mashes, Gospel and Good Ol' Country Music.

The current station manager of WFMU is Ken Freedman, also known affectionately as "Raad_Man."