next year to 780 kHz. A 1924 fire at the Shepard store destroyed the transmitter, and in 1928 the station moved to the Biltmore Hotel. WEAN's studios were later in the Crown Hotel in Providence. Yankee Network Starting in 1927, WEAN received programming from Boston sister station WNAC, the forerunner to WBIX (1260 AM) and WRKO (680 AM). This formed the cornerstone of the Yankee Network, a regional radio service feeding newscasts and other programs throughout the region. In the 1940s and 1950s, WEAN was a network affiliate of the Mutual Broadcasting System, carrying its dramas, comedies, variety shows, news and sports. On March 29, 1941, under the provisions of the North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement (NARBA), stations on 780 kHz, including WEAN, moved to 790 kHz, which has been the station's assignment ever since. The Shepard family announced the sale of the Yankee Network, including WEAN, to General Tire & Rubber in December 1942. The transaction was approved the following month. In August 1954, General Teleradio announced it would sell WEAN to the Providence Journal-Bulletin newspaper, which already owned WPJB AM-FM; upon assuming control on October 9, the Journal-Bulletin shut down WPJB (AM), with WEAN inheriting its ABC affiliation (while retaining the Mutual and Yankee Network affiliations) and WPJB-FM continuing in operation as WEAN's "fine music" sister station. By the 1960s, WEAN was a full service, middle-of-the-road outlet, with popular music, news and sports. It transitioned to adult contemporary music by the 1970s. All-news From 1975 to 1977, WEAN was an affiliate of NBC's short-lived "News And Information Service", or "NIS," a 24-hour all-news radio network and branded "All News 79 WEAN". When NIS folded in 1977, WEAN continued as an all-news station with its own staff of anchors and reporters. Affiliation switched to CBS, and while the station carried a considerable amount of CBS news content, most news originated locally, with a local staff that numbered as high as 22 members (not all full-time, but all working for the news department.) WEAN continued as an all-news station ("Newsradio 79 WEAN"), morphing in the early 1980s into all-news much of the day, but with local talk in certain dayparts and syndicated late-night talk. It continued as such, branded "Newstalk 79 WEAN" until shortly after the Journal-Bulletin sold it on April 1, 1985. Oldies, sports, standards After ownership changes, WEAN changed call signs to WWAZ, with classical music, followed by