The station is located in the Hartman Union Building (known on campus as the "HUB"), which serves as the school's center of student activity.
WPCR has a wide variety of college radio programming spanning several genres of music, with a primary focus on smaller, independent record labels.
Then-Plymouth State College started a student-run, carrier current radio station using the WPCR designation on November 17, 1968.
[5] A wide variety of students broadcast over the outlet; in 1971, these included Judy Hampton, a female sportscaster—unusual for the time—who was also blind, sat by the announcers at home athletic events, and delivered a nightly sports recap.
[3] After planning began in 1970, Plymouth State received a construction permit to build a 10-watt FM radio station on December 4, 1972.