The student-run KSLU radio station, which had launched in 1974, broadcasting around the clock for the Northshore and serving as a valuable hands-on learning resource, has been at the forefront of technological advancement on multiple occasions. In 1988 it became the first station in the South to install a digital touchscreen operating system. This new system attracted radio personnel from across the world to visit and see it in operation.
Over a decade later, in 1996, the station again made history as one of the first noncommercial stations in the world to broadcast via the internet, bringing to Southeastern a global listenership.