It may be said that the beginning of the Tartu Family Radio was in July and August 1994, when a group of American volunteers started to build studios in the half-finished attic of the Higher Theological Seminary. At the same time, the Tartu Family Radio Corporation was founded. The founder members were Ermo Jürma, Peeter Vigel, Taavi Palm, Tõnu Veebel, Endel Meiusi, Erik Rahkema and Valdeko Säre. The building took exactly three weeks. On 14 August 1994, at the consecration ceremony of the Tartu Family Radio rooms, the first signal on 89,0 MHz went on the air, and Lea Lääts, who had been invited as a guest from the Kuressaare Family Radio, spoke into the microphone: "You are listening to the Tartu Family Radio on 89,0 MHz".
