In addition, it acquires similar programming from the Public Radio Satellite System, the internet, and local sources.

The station also carries special broadcasts of lectures, panel discussions, symposiums and live concerts from arts centers and other colleges in its region.

Some programming is produced locally by volunteer community DJs and also Hobart and William Smith students.

WITH 90.1FM: Related to WEOS is WITH 90.1FM (licensed to Ithaca, New York) broadcasting from the WSQG (WSKG) 90.9FM tower in North Lansing, with 1,000 watts ERP (omnidirectional).

WEOS started on May 6, 1949, as a carrier current radio station at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, primarily as a means of rebroadcasting recorded lectures from Western Civilization or other classes for students to either re-hear, or in some cases, hear for the first time if they missed class.

The station went on the air in 1971, broadcasting a variety of programs both recorded and live, all forms of music, news, and sports, including those of NPR.

For years, there was an effort to get the station's transmitter up on "Bean's Hill" to lessen multipath and help improve coverage.

This came to pass with a move to Stanley, New York, on a tower site owned by Ontario County public safety.

The ERP was raised to 4 KW, with a directional antenna, to protect co-channel WITR 89.7FM and adjacent channel WRVO 89.9FM.

WITH is operated in cooperation with WXXI Public Broadcasting Council as per an agreement announced on April 6, 2010.

This was in part due to the adjacent channel issue caused with the main NPR news outlet at that time, WRVO.

This was, in part, a mistake that the FCC made: allowing WRVO a power increase that actually interferes with WEOS.

Due to the "gray area" of no "city-grade" (70 dBu) coverage of public radio in the Finger Lakes, WEOS was allowed to broadcast public radio programming from NPR and PRI as an auxiliary member station beginning in December 1990.

However, resistance quickly went away when Gulf War I occurred, and WEOS became a primary source in the area for up-to-the-minute news and information.

The station's 24/7 non-commercial news and electric music format serves a potential audience of nearly 300,000 people,[5] with a large percentage of the listenership in the Ithaca and southern Finger Lakes area.

This continued in the 1990s, and the broadcasts were carried by radio stations both in the United States and worldwide, including Japan and Australia.

Community and corporate contributions (often obtained during year-round quiet fund drives) have helped the station grow in its ability to produce more local coverage and support the addition of full-time staff members.