UW-Platteville’s student radio station has resumed online streaming around the world.

91 FM, WSUP has served as the campus radio station since 1964 and originally began web-casting in the spring of 2006, but Dave Meinhardt, adviser for WSUP, said as federal laws changed, WSUP was not prepared to meet the rigorous technical specifications to legally air music online and stopped streaming in the spring of 2008. WSUP retained web-casting privileges for sporting events.

The station resumed web-casting at 6 a.m. on March 1 on its Web site wsup.org. Meinhardt said WSUP was able to resume web-casting because the station’s lawyers discovered a portion of the law that exempted small radio stations such as WSUP from meeting the same technical specifications for web-casting as larger stations.

This means WSUP will be able to expand its coverage from across Grant County to around the globe.

“I was really excited when I heard would be web-casting again,” said station manager Scott Marshaus. “I promised to bring it back. I think it is a necessity in modern radio.”

“Now alumni and parents and friends of announcers can listen to the radio station. I am pleased to be extending our audience,” Meinhardt said.

To listen to WSUP online, visit their Web site and chose from one of the streaming options near the top of the page.