Complex sentence: When the station came on the air in 1950, it was the first library-owned radio station in the country and was made possible by the donation of equipment by the Bingham family, who owned The Courier-Journal and WHAS radio at the time.
Split into simpler sentences: When the station came on the air in 1950, it was the first library-owned radio station in the country. Founded years before the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 National Public Radio's creation in 1970, the station was made possible by the donation of equipment by the Bingham family, who owned The Courier-Journal and WHAS radio at the time.