[1] In 1967 and 1968, conversations took place between Father Colman Barry, OSB, president of St. John's University, William Kling, manager of the station, and C. Stanley Potter, Director of the State Services for the Blind from 1948 to 1985.
By 1969, the project was known as the Communication Center, was also providing Braille for Minnesotans, and had expanded its volunteer base considerably.
The programming is interrupted in six smaller Minnesota cities by teams of volunteers reading local newspapers.
The programming is carried on satellite, where it is picked up by many other radio reading services across the hemisphere, and it is streamed online.
By 1975, there were enough of them that they decided to create the Association of Radio Reading Services, headed by C. Stanley Potter.