Robert Karlowa, a music store owner in Rock Island, Illinois, began experimenting with radio transmission in 1907.

[4] The Ed Ryan home across the street from the Palmer campus was acquired, remodeled and expanded for a broadcast studio.

[5] After Palmer Communications sold the radio stations in 1986, they moved to a new building on Davenport's eastern border with Bettendorf.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021 as WOC Broadcasting Center, using the American English spelling.

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