Editing WKVB (FM) (section)

===Early years===
{{Distinguish||text=[[WGTR (Massachusetts)|W1XOJ/W43B/WGTR]], an experimental FM station of the [[Yankee Network]]}}{{Further|WVEI (AM)}}
On October 5, 1960,<ref name="hc">{{Cite web|url=https://enterpriseefiling.fcc.gov/dataentry/api/download/attachment/1351fd2c-72a1-df1e-e7e5-ddcc92ac0076|title=History Cards for WKVB|publisher=[[Federal Communications Commission]]}}</ref> the [[Federal Communications Commission]] (FCC) awarded the Waterman Broadcasting Corporation, owner of [[WVEI (AM)|WAAB (1440 AM)]], a [[construction permit]] to build a new FM radio station licensed to Worcester on 107.3&nbsp;MHz, to transmit from Asnebumskit Hill in Paxton.<ref name=":15">{{Cite web |last=Fybush |first=Scott |date=March 13, 2003 |title=Tower Site of the Week: Asnebumskit Hill (and Little Asnebumskit), Paxton, Mass. |url=https://www.fybush.com/site-030313.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200804054651/https://www.fybush.com/site-030313.html |archive-date=August 4, 2020 |access-date=February 27, 2020 |website=www.fybush.com}}</ref> WAAB-FM went on the air on June 15, 1961.{{r|airdate}} In its early years, WAAB-FM simulcast the [[full service (radio format)|full service]] programming of its AM sister station; in 1967, it broke away from the simulcast and launched a stereo [[beautiful music]] format.<ref name="bostonradio-history">{{Cite web |date=February 25, 2007 |title=The Boston Radio Dial: WAAF(FM) |url=https://www.bostonradio.org/stations/74467 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190730041531/https://www.bostonradio.org/stations/74467 |archive-date=July 30, 2019 |access-date=February 20, 2020 |website=The Archives @ BostonRadio.org}}</ref>

WAAB-AM-FM was sold to WAAB, Inc., in 1968 for $675,000. WAAB, Inc., was owned by [[Ahmet Ertegun]] and his brother [[Nesuhi Ertegun]], as well as record executive [[Jerry Wexler]]; all had just recently sold [[Atlantic Records]] to [[Warner Bros.-Seven Arts]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=April 1, 1968 |title=LIN group gets New York outlet|id={{ProQuest|1014513717}} |pages=70, 72 |work=Broadcasting |url=https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1968/1968-04-01-BC.pdf |url-status=live |access-date=February 19, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210313200018/https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1968/1968-04-01-BC.pdf |archive-date=March 13, 2021}}</ref> The FM station took on new WAAF call letters on May 28, 1968;<ref name="hc" /> the call sign had been dropped the previous year by [[WNTD|a station]] in [[Chicago]].<ref name="Chic670703">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/109441709/tower-ticker/|date=July 3, 1967|page=I:12|first=Herb|last=Lyon|title=Tower Ticker|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|location=Chicago, Illinois|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=September 12, 2022}}</ref><!-- Mon -->

In later years, WAAF ownership would erroneously claim a longer history than that of its own license, stretching back to experimental FM station W1XOJ in the late 1930s.{{r|raunchy}} W1XOJ—later given the normal call letters WGTR—was part of the first FM network, put together by the [[Yankee Network]] and its principal, John Shepard, who at the time also owned WAAB. While WAAB-FM/WAAF initially utilized the same transmission tower as this previous station,<ref name=":15" /> there is no connection, as the license for WGTR was deleted at the request of [[General Teleradio]] on July 24, 1953.<ref>{{Cite news |date=August 3, 1953 |title=FM Station Deleted|id={{ProQuest|1401203140}} |page=102 |work=Broadcasting |url=https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1953/BC-1953-08-03.pdf |url-status=live |access-date=February 22, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210313200018/https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1953/BC-1953-08-03.pdf |archive-date=March 13, 2021}}</ref>