May 1921, and Vermilya's 1964 obituary stated that, based on this date, WNBH was "the third radio station in New England and the 11th in the United States". However, contemporary Department of Commerce records treated Vermilya's amateur stations, and Slocum & Kilburn's WDAU, as separate stations that were not directly tied to WNBH's history. WBBG In January 1924 Vermilya was issued his own broadcasting station license, with the sequentially assigned callsign WBBG, located at his home at 24 Vermilya Street in Mattapoisett, Massachusetts, transmitting on 1250 kHz. In the spring of 1924 the station moved to 1210 kHz. The new station's slogan was "The Voice from Cape Cod". WBBG was deleted in the fall of 1925, as Vermilya made plans to move his broadcasting activities to New Bedford. WNBH In October 1925 Vermilya, along with A. J. Lopez, was issued a license for station WNBH in New Bedford, operating on 1210 kHz. Initially the Department of Commerce reported WNBH as a new station, however, based on the fact that WBBG and WNBH had a common owner in Vermilya, and both transmitted on 1210 kHz, the department ultimately concluded that WBBG and WNBH were functionally the same station, and a contemporary report stated that "This month brings a change of call to WBBG, Mattapoisett. This station will hereafter be known by the letters WNBH." WNBH's studios were located at the New Bedford Hotel, whence it derived its call letters. An early transmitting antenna for the station was lifted onto the chimney of Atlas Tack Company in Fairhaven by helium-filled balloons. When the rig was in the right spot, the balloons were deflated by shotgun blasts. The operation took place at 5 a.m., and the gunshots prompted a neighbor to call the police. Before March 1932, WNBH had joined the Yankee Network. On June 18, 1932, the Federal Radio Commission authorized the station to increase its daytime power from 100 to 250 watts; output remained at 100 watts at night. In March 1941, under the provisions of the North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement, WNBH was assigned to transmit on 1340 kHz, which has been its assignment ever since. In 1948 WNBH added FM service with WFMR (now WCTK) on 98.1 MHz, which had signed on two years earlier. These two stations are still co-owned. In 1997, WCTK moved its studios from New Bedford to Providence, Rhode Island to concentrate on fully serving