It went on air in October 1948 as WNAC-FM. The WBZ station has been heavily involved in a lot of philanthropy like the Boston Christmastime Fund's annual Children's Hospital campaign, which it undertakes in partnership with the WBZ-TV. “NewsRadio 1030” WBZ Boston is adding a simulcast on the HD2 channel of iHeartMedia CHR “Kiss 108” WXKS-FM (107.9).

[29] He remained at the station until 1985.

Most programming is provided by Boston sister station WEEI-FM.
[146] Carl DeSuze became the fourth inductee (and the first to be inducted posthumously) on September 19, 2011, coinciding with WBZ's 90th anniversary.

[8] It is an affiliate of the CBS News Radio Network, as well as NBC News Radio, ABC News Radio, and AP Radio for national and international news as well as some features.

[74], WBZ added an affiliation with the CBS Radio Network on March 6, 1995, making it one of a handful of stations to carry both CBS Radio and ABC Radio (however, the station ceased an affiliation with CNN Radio). The station was previously owned by Westinghouse Broadcasting and CBS Radio, ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ. It is the oldest broadcasting station in New England, and one of the oldest stations in the United States. [4] The station originally transmitted from WNAC-TV's tower in Medford, using a transmitter originally used for the Yankee Network's FM station on Mount Washington (which was originally considered a Boston station, but was eventually refocused to Portland, Maine), which operated from December 18, 1940, to September 1948 (when it signed off due to increasing costs and a lack of listener interest). Audio Ink ™ is a trademark of Streamline Publishing, Inc. Log In (Existing Digital Subscriptions Only). WBZ has long been one of the highest-rated stations in the Boston area. [23] It remained there until Hurricane Carol destroyed the tower on August 31, 1954. [38], At the outset, WBZ's full-service radio format leaned toward middle of the road music, but also featuring an increasing amount of rock and roll. [12] [18] Efforts were soon made to change WBZA to a synchronous repeater, transmitting on the same frequency as WBZ, 900 kHz, but the process proved difficult, as the two transmitters often interfered with each other, even in Boston.

WBZ FM 98.5 is a sports radio station in the city of Boston, Massachusetts. [23] The Hull site would also serve as the home for WBZ's first FM sister station, which operated from there as W1XK, W67B, and then WBZ-FM on several frequencies off and on from November 7, 1940 until November 21, 1948. [22] Finally, FCC administrative law judge Edward Kuhlmann ruled on August 11, 1987 that WROR's license, along with all of RKO General's broadcast licenses, be denied renewal;[23][24][25] while Gencorp initially appealed the ruling,[26] the company was advised by the FCC that any appeal would be denied, and that to avoid the indignity of further license forfeitures without compensation, their stations should be divested instead.
3 = Under a "Shared Time" agreement. [40] [41], WBZ re-established an FM station on December 15, 1957, transmitting from the brand new WBZ-TV tower in Needham, operating at 106.7 MHz. This station is owned and operated by iHeartMedia, Inc. WZLX was one of America's first classic rock FM stations.