1948 - A radio club is formed with ten members and a $25 operating budget.
1949 - Muhlenberg College receives licensing for a closed-circuit AM radio station.
1950 - WMUH-AM begins broadcasting to all dormitories at 640 kHz, operating from the projection room of the science auditorium. The station's staff of students hosts programming following a three-hour weekly schedule expanded to two hours of programming two nights a week.
1951- The station moves to its first real studios, a three room operation in the basement of the newly remodeled Haas Library. A new transmitter and equipment are built by Dr. Boyer of the Physics Department. During this time the station begins carrying live Muhlenberg College sporting events.
1952 - The college administration grants WMUH permission to sell advertising.
1953 - WMUH-AM, normally a closed circuit campus station, is monitored in Virginia and by ships at sea when the antennae is hooked up to the copper dome of Haas Library. As a result of the operating irregularity, the FCC suspends WMUH's license for four years.
1954 - The station receives a $1,000 loan to purchase new equipment.
1957 - The station's license is reinstated by the FCC. The new programming schedule is Sunday-Thursday, 7pm to midnight. This is later expanded to include a noon classical hour.
1959 - WMUH broadcasts 90 hours a week with a thirty member staff and a record collection that includes 500 albums and 300 45s.
Also in 1959, planning begins for starting an FM broadcast station at Muhlenberg. The programming proposal for the station includes tapes from Radio Moscow and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Russian language lessons, plays, music interpretation and news. Six years later, WMUH begins broadcasting at 89.7mhz with 10 watts transmitting power.

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