The station first signed on the air on March 1, 1982, as WOAC, broadcasting on UHF channel 67; it was founded by businessman Morton Kent. Initially, it operated as an
independent station, serving mainly the Canton area. It originally maintained a programming format featuring syndicated reruns, movies, and local news updates. In 1995, Canton 67 Ltd. sold WOAC to Whitehead Media, However,
Jewelry Television took over the Shop at Home network operations around the time of the planned closure, and WOAC and other Shop at Home affiliates then ran a combination of programming from the two networks. On September 26, 2006, Scripps announced that it was selling its Shop at Home stations, including WOAC, to
Multicultural Television of
New York City for $170 million. The sale of WOAC and sister stations
KCNS in
San Francisco and
WRAY-TV in
Raleigh, North Carolina, was completed on December 20, 2006. Shortly after Multicultural closed on the deal, all home shopping programming ceased in favor of running infomercials and locally produced programming (such as
Dining With Steve, which profiled restaurants in the station's area of service, and
The Art of Living, which interviewed influential people in the same area). After Multicultural ran into financial problems and defaulted on its loans, the station was placed into a trust; it was then sold to
Marion, Illinois–based
Tri-State Christian Television, a chain of Christian television stations. On June 25, 2009, the station's call letters were changed to WRLM, and the station began broadcasting TCT's
religious programming. The station's call letters are named after Radiant Life Ministries (the licensee name under which TCT owns WRLM); however, they are not related to
KRLB-LD in
Richland, Washington, whose group of stations are operated by a similarly named "Radiant Light Broadcasting". WRLM maintained studios on Front Street in
Cuyahoga Falls until TCT closed all of its local studios in June 2018 with the
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)'s repeal of the Main Studio Rule. ==Technical information==