WROR-FM is a radio station licensed to Framingham, Massachusetts. It broadcasts on 105.7 MHz and serves the Boston market. The station offers a classic hits format, with a timespan of the '60s, '70s and '80s.
WROR's roots go back to WKOX-FM, the FM sister station of WKOX, then on 1190 AM. WKOX-FM aired classical music for Boston's MetroWest suburbs until January, 1969, when it began broadcasting a Top 40/Rock format as "FM-105" and later on as "S...
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WROR-FM is a radio station licensed to Framingham, Massachusetts. It broadcasts on 105.7 MHz and serves the Boston market. The station offers a classic hits format, with a timespan of the '60s, '70s and '80s.
WROR's roots go back to WKOX-FM, the FM sister station of WKOX, then on 1190 AM. WKOX-FM aired classical music for Boston's MetroWest suburbs until January, 1969, when it began broadcasting a Top 40/Rock format as "FM-105" and later on as "Stereo-105". WKOX-FM was the Boston area's first full time live FM Top 40 station. WKOX-FM converted to stereo broadcasting, in July, 1969. Some of the DJs on WKOX-FM included Brother Bill Heizer, F.M. Douglas, Dick Stephens, John Leisher, Al Fraser, J. William Charles, Ken McKay and Jim Conlee.
WKOX AM and FM were acquired by Fairbanks Communications in July, 1971. After the sale, WKOX-FM became WVBF, "The Electronic Mama", as a top 40/rock station, initially retaining some of the WKOX-FM DJs. The call letters officially stood for Virginia...
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