David Letterman from 1982–1990 and was the announcer on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno from 1992–2004. In 1991, Hurricane Bob blew down WOCB's transmitter tower, and the damage suffered was so severe that the owners could not afford to rebuild. The station was then sold to Ernie Boch, Sr., an automobile dealer in the Boston suburb of Norwood, Massachusetts, who turned WOCB-FM into the flagship station for his new Boch Broadcasting company, WXTK. Concurrently, WOCB became WUOK, and under that callsign programmed CNN Headline News, sports radio, and finally a WXTK simulcast. By 1997, Boch Broadcasting, which by this point owned four FM radio stations, no longer needed WUOK and donated it to Boston University (BU) for use as a relay of WBUR-FM in Boston, under the call letters WBUR; the simulcast began March 3, 1997. Boston University's 2013 acquisition of WBUA (92.7 FM) in Tisbury (on Martha's Vineyard) to serve as a WBUR-FM satellite rendered the 1240 AM facility redundant; on August 5, 2013, BU announced that it would be sold to Alex Langer, with plans to program it with Portuguese-language programming similar to that of another Langer station, WSRO. The call letters were changed to WBAS on February 1, 2014, two days after BU and Langer agreed to a time brokerage agreement. The WBUR-FM simulcast was concurrently replaced with jazz music, which Langer had been temporarily programming on WZBR in Dedham before its conversion into a simulcast of WSRO; by mid-February, WBAS was itself a WSRO simulcast, creating a three-station network. In December 2014, WBAS and WZBR began carrying some separate programming from WSRO; by 2015, the three stations were jointly branded as "Rede ABR". Langer Broadcasting took the station and its translator silent in mid-July 2020, due to financial difficulties; WSRO and WZBR (the latter of which had left "Rede ABR" to carry a brokered R&B format a few years earlier) also concurrently suspended operations. As of February 2021, WBAS returned to the air broadcasting an adult standards format. Effective April 29, 2021, Bob Bittner Broadcasting bought the station from Langer Broadcasting for $100,000. Translator In February 2020, W268CP changed its frequency to 106.5 in order for WKFY in East Harwich to change its frequency to 101.5 and move its transmitter to Orleans. References External links Radio stations established in 1940 1940 establishments in Massachusetts BAS Yarmouth, Massachusetts Adult standards radio stations in the United States