WPSU's signal will then cover Warren, McKean, Jefferson, Elk, Cameron, Centre, Clearfield, Clinton, Mifflin and Blair counties. The changes in programming have yet to be decided by a planning group of students, faculty and staff of WPSU, but the grant will give the School of Communications some new opportunities. WPSU has also applied for a license for an entirely separate student-operated radio station that should be approved in the next year and a half, said Pavelko. WPSU still has to raise an additional 25 percent of the grant, which was decided by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, a part of the Department of Commerce. We believe we received the grant because we met the agency's first priority, which is to first service.
First service means a station is bringing public radio to listeners for the first time.