WKWO
radio station in Wooster, Ohio
WKWO (90.9 FM) is a radio station licensed to serve Wooster, Ohio. Owned by the Educational Media Foundation (EMF), it broadcasts EMF's Contemporary Christian programming service, K-Love.
The station operated from 1968 to 2019 as WCWS, the campus radio station of The College of Wooster, before the college transitioned it to online-only operation in April 2019. Sold to EMF the following year, WCWS was relaunched as WKWO, carrying K-Love for the Mid-Ohio region.
History
WCWS-FM at The College of Wooster
The College of Wooster's first venture into radio was the short-lived station WABW, which broadcast for one year in 1926. A carrier current outlet, "WCW", went on the air in 1950, and in 1956, the school struck a deal with commercial station WWST-FM in which the college received two hours of airtime a day.
The WWST-FM agreement ended in November 1966 as FM radio became a more profitable venture, prompting the college to apply for its own station. On September 12, 1967, the college filed for a construction permit of its own, which was granted on December 5. WCWS received its license on May 24, 1968, and it began regular operations that fall. The station broadcast the New York Metropolitan Opera and also was supplied with United Press International wire service.
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Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7948204. Authority coordinates are 40.828, -81.870. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1968, 2019, 1926 and 1950.
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