Joe Rice notes that in the early days, WNOP could have up to 20 remotes on a Sunday from various churches.  They carried Chicago Bears football games, and for many years had an afternoon classical music program - "Hall of the Masters."  Other programming formats over the years included hill-billy, pop, Dixieland, and, ultimately, and for most of its existence, jazz.

Cincinnati radio legends Ray Scott and Leo Underhill were stalwarts of the station in the sixties and seventies.  Scott was interviewed by the producers of the television sit-com WKRP as a character study for the fictional station's "Dr. Johnny Fever."  On the station's 22nd anniversary, it was Underhill who announced "To everybody that said we'd never last and be successful [ long pause], you were half right."

WNOP broadcast at 740 on the AM dial, from transmitters on top of John's Hill in Cold Spring.

The Enquirer published an article announcing WNOP's demise, here.  WNOP is still on the air, but it's a Catholic religious station these days, and the Jazz Ark is long gone.  R.I.P.