WIUM

Tri States Public Radio is an outreach service of the College of Fine Arts and Communication at Western Illinois University.

[1][2] In 1956, Western Illinois University established WWKS for educational radio broadcasting at 91.3 MHz with 3,000 watts.

The station's FCC call letters were attributed to William Kimbrough Shake, who installed the equipment acquired from Gates Radio, in Quincy, IL.

The station's mission was to provide educational programming primarily for the growing K-12 audiences in west-central Illinois.

The station's sole full-time employee throughout the decade is Elmer "Tug" Haddock, who served as General Manager and provided supervision of volunteer student announcers.