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S. Arthur Beltrone ('63) and Professor Virgil Jackson Lee of what then was the Theatre Arts Department founded WCWP in the spring of 1960. They decided that a closed-circuit (carrier current) radio station to provide entertainment and campus information for resident students would be beneficial to the student body. With a staff of about 20 students, the Radio Club of C.W. Post College was initiated. From a small studio and control room, WCWP first signed on the air at 12 noon, October 18, 1961. The radio station operated from these quarters for two years. After this initial period of growth, plans were made to extend WCWP's services to the Long Island community through the facilities of a non-commercial, educational FM station, operating from the college campus.

In January of 1965, WCWP acquired its new quarters, the Benjamin Abrams Communications Center. Mr. Abrams was a pioneer in the communications industry, spearheading the development of the first self-powered portable radio, first clock radio, first transistorized pocket radio, first portable television receiver, and the first portable air conditioner. WCWP became the FM community radio service for Nassau County’s North Shore with local talk, music, and news programming.

The Abrams Family Foundation has continued its generous support of the station over the years. In 1996-97, the Foundation provided funds that permitted the station to open a fiber-optic link to our sister station WLIU-FM on the Southampton Campus of Long Island University. As a result of WLIU's affiliation with National Public Radio, WCWP became an Associate Member of NPR. The two stations began simulcasting during various parts of the day in 1996 as The Long Island University Public Radio Network.

WCWP-FM had been part of the Long Island University Public Radio Network (LIUPRN) with anchor station of the network WLIU for over 20 years. Long Island Univerisyt sold WLIU in 2011 and WCWP became an independent FM station once again. Prior to its relationship with WLIU, WCWP had been the Community Public Radio station of North Nassau County. To reestablish that relationship has been the task of the WCWP staff since our separation from WLIU.

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