WKSU-FM received for the first time money from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in 1973, and also established an affiliation with National Public Radio (NPR) that same year, although it had carried the NPR program "All Things Considered" as early as March 1972. By February 1974, WKSU-FM debuted a local morning program titled "Morning Show", created by Cleveland broadcasting veteran Dr. Bill Randle, then a professor of communications at Kent State. The program also featured Paul Warfield delivering sports reports, as Warfield was continuing his graduate studies at the university. WKSU-FM hosted their first fundraising drive over the weekend of April 19–21, 1974, offering in advance to give half of the money raised to relief efforts in Xenia, Ohio following the 1974 Super Outbreak. WKSU-FM met their goal of $10,000, with the relief efforts receiving $5,000. The NPR affiliation would prove useful as WKSU-FM carried the network's coverage of the House Judiciary Committee's impeachment process against President Richard Nixon gavel-to-gavel throughout the spring and early summer of 1974, one of the few stations in the region to have done so.