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WROR-FM (105.7 FM) – branded as 105.7 WROR – is a commercial classic hits radio station licensed to Framingham, Massachusetts. Owned by the Beasley Broadcast Group , the station serves Greater Boston and much of surrounding New England , including portions of the Portsmouth and Providence radio markets.
J.J. Wright is an American disc jockey, originally from Louisville, Kentucky, who has been broadcasting in Boston, Massachusetts since 1973. [1] Starting on WRKO (680-AM), he went to briefly to WBOS (92.9), then KISS 108 when the station first went on the air in 1979, there he stayed for nearly 20 years. [2]
The following radio stations broadcast on FM frequency 105.7 MHz: ... WROR-FM in Framingham, Massachusetts; ... By using this site, ...
Confusion with other radio stations, including WCRB, and a TV station lead to WCLB changing its calls to WKLB-FM in 1995. 105.7 was sold by then-owners Evergreen Media in early 1996 to Greater Media, who combined the two country stations on 96.9 under the WKLB call sign. (105.7 became WROR-FM at that time).
The WVBF call sign had previously been used by 105.7 FM in Framingham from 1971 until 1993, while broadcasting top 40 and adult contemporary formats; that station is now WROR-FM. From the station's inception, WCEG/WVBF only broadcast during daytime hours with 1,000 watts; [ 1 ] however, 2-watt nighttime service was inaugurated in 2002. [ 11 ]
On January 1, 2022, the station launched an adult hits format as "The Penguin", simulcast with Great Eastern Radio-owned WSNO in Barre; [14] [a] the call sign was changed to WSNO-FM. [4] All three of the initial members of WSNO's airstaff previously worked at WXXX. [14] The sale to Great Eastern Radio was consummated on January 19, 2022.
The name is based on several factors, one being the frequency (105.7) and the other being the fact that it recently relocated from 99.9 having been under the name 99X, and the "X" in the name had become an inherent part of the station. The "X" in the previous name had come from the call letters WIXO. The station features an active rock music ...
WTTB is one of the oldest radio stations along the Treasure Coast. It signed on the air on June 7, 1954; 70 years ago (). [4] Although it is widely believed the station's slogan, Where the tropics begin, originated with WTTB, Dr. John Leroy Hutchison has been credited for coining the phrase back in the 1920s–nearly three decades before WTTB went on the air.