Frank Alvin Delle, Jr., and Donald G. Fisher were initially granted on April 20, 1966, a construction permit for a new 1,000-watt radio station on 1490 kHz in Middlebury, for which they had filed more than four years prior.
[6] The ruling raised the likelihood that an order would force the brand-new station off the air; WFAD continued to broadcast until it received a telegram from the Federal Communications Commission at 2:35 p.m. on August 5, instructing it to cease operations.
[7] WFAD launched a legal and public opinion campaign to allow the station to go forward, which included a petition signed by 5,000 residents of Addison County.
[18] In its second stint as a Brady-owned station, WFAD became increasingly talk-oriented, airing The Rush Limbaugh Show and a local program, The Talk of Vermont, hosted by Timothy Philbin, a Republican politician who had lost in two elections to the House of Representatives.
[20] After a $925,000[21] deal to sell WFAD and WMNM to Pathfinder Communications of Connecticut collapsed, at the start of 1997, the Bradys' Pro-Radio Inc., and Dynamite Radio Inc, which owned WGTK (the former WCVM), filed for bankruptcy.
[22] Ultimately, the WFAD license was sold to Kate Shermer and her husband, WPTZ-TV meteorologist Tom Messner, while Dynamite Radio operated the station and consolidated its facilities with WGTK.
[33] By 2022, WFAD had shifted to carrying The Point, Northeast Broadcasting's network of adult album alternative radio stations in Vermont.