WAAF (FM)

WAAF (107.3 FM, simulcast on WKAF 97.7 FM) is a rock station located in Boston.

Originally the station targeted the Worcester, Massachusetts market, but by the mid-1980s, WAAF had begun to direct most of its attention to the Boston radio market.

WAAF signal

WAAF currently broadcasts from Stiles Hill in Boylston, Massachusetts with an effective radiated power of 9.6 kW directional (protecting three other FM signals) WAAF used to broadcast out of Paxton, Massachusetts on 107.3 FM and maintains a backup site there. They simulcast on 97.7 FM, which is licensed to Brockton, Massachusetts (where their signal can be better heard in parts of Boston). When they transmitted from the location in Paxton, the central part of Massachusetts, WAAF could be heard throughout much of Massachusetts, as well as parts of neighboring U.S. states New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Vermont, Maine and eastern New York.

In spring and summer of 2006, they began testing the new transmitter site, the station's signal strength dramatically decreased in most parts of Rhode Island, Connecticut, Vermont and Western Massachusetts. WAAF was trying to concentrate the signal into its primary sales market, Boston. The new transmitter began operating on program test authority from the FCC, at the WUNI-TV tower on Stiles Hill in Boylston, Massachusetts. The first experiment from this transmitter location took place between October 31 and November 22, 2005 but the station had to resort back to Paxton for a couple of months to address alleged multipath issues. (The issues being blamed on a faulty T1 line between their Brighton studios and the transmitter site after extensive testing). WAAF continued to operate from this site, under the original program test authority until May 26, 2011, when the FCC officially issued a license for the site.

Waaf

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WKAF

WKAF is a radio station in the Boston, Massachusetts market licensed to Brockton, Massachusetts, simulcasting the mainstream rock format of WAAF. It broadcasts on 97.7 MHz, and serves the Metro Boston and South Shore areas of Massachusetts, which are unable to receive WAAF's main 107.3 MHz signal. The station's studios are located in Boston's Allston district and the transmitter site is atop Great Blue Hill.

History

WKAF first went on the air in 1948 as WBET-FM, the sister AM station of WBET/990 (now WXBR/1460) in Brockton (WBET would buy WBKA/1450 & WBKA-FM/107.1 & shut down 990 and 107.1 and move from 1450 to 1460). The two stations almost always simulcast programming for the next 28 years. On November 1, 1976, WBET-FM went Stereo and broke away from the AM to broadcast a Top-40 format. On January 1, 1977, the call letters were changed to WCAV. In July 1982, the station switched to country music and targeted the South Shore of Massachusetts. This format continued until 1999. For some of that time, WCAV was the only country-music station on the FM dial in the Boston area.

WAAF

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