WKAF
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| City | Brockton, Massachusetts |
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| Broadcast area | Greater Boston |
| Branding | The New 97.7 |
| Slogan | Boston's #1 for R&B |
| Frequency | 97.7 MHz (also on HD Radio) |
| First air date | July 21, 1948 |
| Format | FM/HD1: Urban AC HD2: WAAF simulcast HD3: WRKO simulcast |
| ERP | 2,050 watts |
| HAAT | 173 meters |
| Class | A |
| Facility ID | 19633 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 42°12′42.00″N 71°6′51.00″W / 42.2116667°N 71.1141667°W |
| Callsign meaning | similar to WAAF (former simulcast partner) |
| Former callsigns | WBET-FM (1948–1976) WCAV (1977–1999) WBOT (1999–2005) WILD-FM (2005–2006) |
| Owner |
Entercom (Entercom License, LLC) |
| Sister stations | WAAF, WEEI, WEEI-FM, WRKO |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | www |
WKAF is a radio station in the Boston, Massachusetts market licensed to Brockton, Massachusetts, airing an urban adult contemporary format branded as "The New 97.7." It broadcasts on 97.7 MHz, and serves the Metro Boston and South Shore areas of Massachusetts. The station's studios are located in Boston's Allston district and the transmitter site is atop Great Blue Hill.
WKAF first went on the air in 1948 as WBET-FM, the sister AM station of WBET/990 (now WATD/1460) in Brockton (WBET would buy WBKA/1450 and WBKA-FM/107.1 and 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.
In 1999, WCAV was purchased by Radio One, a company that owns and operates radio stations which target African American communities. Radio One made many transmitter improvements and established new studios in Roxbury, a largely African American section of Boston. After weeks of dead air and a week-long stunt of a loop of Tone Lōc's "Wild Thing", the station was relaunched on December 6, 1999 as WBOT, "Hot 97.7", targeting the Greater Boston area with a Mainstream Urban format.
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