[1] Later renamed WDCH, the station continued until the fall of 1925 when an inadvertent obscenity uttered over the air caused the college president, Ernest Martin Hopkins, to permanently shut it down.
The new station, dubbed DBS, at first broadcast via tiny transmitters in each dormitory, each operating on a different frequency.
In 1948 the call letters were changed to WDBS, and in 1958, after considerable controversy, the station obtained a standard AM broadcast license.
On March 4, 1958 the students began broadcasting to the entire Upper Valley region as WDCR at 1340 KHz on the dial.
Even today the vast majority of the on-air personnel are students, although there are some exceptions (such as the football play-by-play announcers.)