on-campus transmissions, WKSR frequently suffered signal outages throughout the 1980s and early 1990s and was often referred to as "roommate radio". WKSR was reorganized in 1992 and recognized as a student organization at the university; later in the year, WKSU-FM moved from the Music and Speech Building to a custom-built facility, with WKSR remaining. By 1999, WKSR abandoned carrier current AM entirely and began streaming over a Kent State campus cable channel; at the same time, WKSR also began broadcasting via internet radio. After discovering the existence of a licensed radio station in Loretto, Tennessee, that already uses the WKSR-FM call sign, WKSR was preemptively renamed "Black Squirrel Radio" as the Fall 2005 semester began, a nod to black squirrels common around Kent, Ohio, and the campus proper; faculty advisor Marianne Warzinski viewed the rebranding as a way to expand the station's focus beyond on-campus residents and saw it as "a new start, than a new station". Black Squirrel Radio now calls Franklin Hall its home. The station was formerly located in the Music and Speech Building. Programming Urban contemporary, rock and "local music" all account for the programming on the station. Black Squirrel Radio's mascot, "URL the Squirrel", is an acronym for "Urban-Rock-Local", in addition to the Uniform Resource Locator, a pun alluding to the station's exclusive online format. BSR is an affiliate of UWIRE, which gathers, edits, and re-distributes student-created content, and broadcasts news at 15 minutes before the hour and at 15 minutes past the hour. References External links Kent State University College radio stations in Ohio Radio stations in Akron, Ohio 2005 establishments in Ohio Internet radio stations in the United States