Radio Information Service

Other programming included popular magazines, ads from grocery, drug and department stores, TV listings and other special interest publications.

At its founding in 1976 RIS was broadcast from the campus of Duquesne University to whom it paid rent for space and a small fee for transmitter use on WDUQ-FM.

Around 1991, the University told the small non-profit that it no longer had room for them on its campus and gave it 30 days to vacate.

Following a year of emergency fund raising, design, and build-out, the station moved to the Birmingham Towers on the Southside neighborhood of Pittsburgh.

This agreement allowed the reading service to remain a separate 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with a governing board responsible for all fundraising and community outreach while WDUQ was responsible for the day-to-day RIS business operations, including programming, services, personnel and volunteer management.