[3] The Wide Water Broadcasting Company received a construction permit to build a new radio station on 1540 kHz in East Syracuse on May 12, 1965.
[4] The company, consisting of local residents, built studios in the former Canada Dry Building on Erie Boulevard,[5] Broadcasts began on December 6, 1965, with a full-service format.
[7] Bruce A. Houston bought WPAW in 1969, but his future in Syracuse broadcasting would be frustrated when his bid to buy classical-formatted WONO-FM (now WWHT) was successfully blocked by a citizen's group.
[9] Crawford also relocated the transmitter to a site at Fremont and Myers roads in Syracuse,[4] adjacent to the New York State Thruway.
[11] The simulcast ended in January 1989, when low ratings prompted Forus to flip WOIV to classical music as WVOA; WSIV continued with its religious programs.