The Federal Communications Commission granted the school district a construction permit on March 6, 1973, originally bearing the call sign WQOW.
[2] In 1982, WOPR closed because of a lack of funding, but a grant from local cable company Continental Cablevision gave the station $15,000 in new equipment and led to its reopening in 1983.
[4] During this time, Perry Berkley, a local DJ who was an Oak Park alumnus and had worked at WOPR in the 1970s, served as faculty advisor.
[7] Oak Park High School was forced to convert WOPR from a class into a club in 1985 due to budget cuts.
[7] Despite this, the station was not deleted from FCC records until 2001, 16 years after it ceased broadcasting, when the school failed to respond to an inquiry from the commission as to its operating status.