Osewalt ran into some personal financial problems, forcing a shutdown of the network in 1986.
Most of the programming was music with the rest being stories, call-ins from children and radio host chatter.
[2] In 1988, Matt Leibowitz approached his friend Peter Yarrow about how a kid's radio network would be designed.
Leibowitz became the network's chairman while Yarrow was appointed vice president for creative programming.
[1] Audience-survey companies like Arbitron Ratings Co. rarely interview kids under age 12.
[5] Grassroots efforts began with kids offering the station, WPRD, their piggy bank money.
[1] On April 1, 1991, a reorganized Imagination Station Network was launched by Leibowitz from WXJO-FM in St. Louis.
[1] WXJO used the moniker "Kids Radio" until it signed off as the final network station, when the FCC stalled in given approval for a license, in late first quarter 1992.