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.