Black Squirrel Radio (BSR) is a non-commercial internet radio station run by students of Kent State University, originating from the university's campus in Kent, Ohio, and broadcasting exclusively online. Black Squirrel Radio is overseen by faculty from Kent State University's Journalism and Mass Communication program. While relaunching under this name in the fall of 2005, Black Squirrel Radio can be traced back directly to 1964 as an unlicensed carrier current AM station on the university's campus, and is intertwined with the establishment and history of the university's licensed non-commercial educational radio station, WKSU. History Established on October 2, 1950, the university's WKSU-FM originally served as an outlet for Kent State students to broadcast; prior to 1950, the university's Radio Workshop program produced original programming for WADC from 1940 to 1943, and on WAKR from 1945 to 1950. WKSU-FM supplanted an unlicensed carrier current station at bearing the "WKSU-AM" name, which launched in 1949 airing rebroadcasts of the Radio Workshop's WAKR programs along with campus news. Due to a lack of FM receivers on campus, the carrier current "WKSU-AM" was reactivated in 1953 as a simulcast of the licensed radio station, but was discontinued at an unknown date. Carrier current radio was revived in 1964 with a third iteration of "WKSU-AM" at again direct simulcasting WKSU-FM, but by January 18, 1965, took on a distinct program schedule. Both "WKSU-AM" and WKSU-FM operated under the auspices of an advisory board; while students had more responsibility at "WKSU-AM", students could submit program ideas for the FM station to the board. By 1971, "WKSU-AM" was broadcasting around-the-clock, affiliating with both American Contemporary Radio and Drake-Chenault's Hit Parade music service. To lessen confusion with WKSU-FM, which became an affiliate of National Public Radio (NPR) in 1973, "WKSU-AM" renamed itself as WKSR in January 1976. While both WKSU-FM and WKSR were located at the university's Music and Speech Building, the relationship between the two entities became strained as the 1980s began. WKSU-FM's controversial cancellation of the late-night progressive rock/freeform program Fresh Air on December 30, 1981, removed the last student-produced show from the station entirely. At the same time, WKSU-FM ended a practice of hiring talent from WKSR deemed worthy; as WKSU-FM had already been transitioning from block programming to public radio, the need for the station to rely on volunteers and students lessened, with professionals taking their place. Due to issues that affected the closed-circuit