By 1975, stereo equipment was purchased by a benefit held at Mesker Amphitheatre in Evansville featuring Ted Nugent.
On January 1, 1977, WEVC became WUEV to reflect the new University of Evansville name (The Buzzard (aka) "Skipper T." Spence, along with, then, director; Dr. Gil Clardy announced the change at midnight).
Programming shifted over the years to reflect a more progressive format, and the station continued to serve the needs of the Evansville community and UE students.
A Xing Streamworks encoder and server were procured and installed, and the audio lines from the control studio were run into a little-used back corner of the WUEV newsroom.
Shortly thereafter, Harlaxton Bureau correspondents covered the death of Princess Diana and were subsequently recognized by the Indiana Society of Professional Journalists.
Thus, anyone listening to WUEV in the late 1990s could hear anything from progressive rock to metal, from jazz to hip-hop, news to sports, anywhere in the world.
A DR-10 telephone switcher was purchased and wired into the Internet Center by Bailey, so that Clark and the field broadcast team could call the UE toll-free number, reach the proper extension, and switch the internet broadcast signal from the control room's input line to a Marti or Comdex input line.
Roughly around the spring of 2000, WUEV began to experiment with the Icecast streaming technology for the terrestrial signal by using a testbed of MP3 songs on the local server.
As early as 1999, student producers at the station were using MP3 encoded songs during live sessions in the on-air studio, and attempts were made to create playlists using MusicMatch and a computer for automation.
By 2004, WUEV had fully moved into offering Shoutcast streaming capability and had adopted a Dell rack mount system.
WUEV was in jeopardy early in 2006 when the University of Evansville administration were recipients of an offer to buy out the station by an undisclosed bidder.
This prompted concerned alumni and students to a major grassroots campaign to protest the sale of the station and its operating bandwidth.
According to local sources, including the University Crescent, over 400 letters were received on the subject, with an overwhelming majority against the proposed sale.
On 9 February 2006, President Stephen Jennings announced that the offer would be rejected, giving administration time to evaluate and change the way that WUEV has been managed on campus.
[11] The University of Evansville went so far as in October 2018 to refute WUEV on-air claims of sale to the public with a press release.
The decision was made without input from the radio and television department," Tristan Richard, senior and general manager of WUEV told NPR.