WSSU (88.5

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) is an FM

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licensed to

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, and serving the

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area. The station is part of

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(WPR), and airs the WPR News network. WSSU also broadcasts local news and programming from studios in the Holden Fine and Applied Arts Center at the

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. The WSSU call letters had originally been on sister Ideas Network station

KUWS KUWS is a public radio station in Superior, Wisconsin, licensed to the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System and operated by the University of Wisconsin–Superior since January 21, 1966.Gitche Gumee (yearbook)(1967), p. 19. Wis ...

from its sign-on in 1966 until 1988. From 1989 to 1995, WSSU was used by a Springfield, IL public radio station which was formerly WSSR and later WUIS. *''See also

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