WNBH

WNBH (1340 AM) is a New Bedford, Massachusetts radio station, owned by Hall Communications and currently broadcasting a classic hits format.

[4] Federal Communications Commission (FCC) records list WNBH's first license date as January 9, 1924.

The longest-running program on WNBH is The Happy Bible Hour, presented by "People's Christian Church" of New Bedford.

Following World War One, he was issued a standard amateur radio license for a station located at his home at 24 Allen Street in Marion, Massachusetts, with the call sign 1HAA.

[10] In May 1922 the Slocum & Kilburn company of New Bedford, where Vermilya managed the radio department, was issued a license for a new broadcasting station with the sequentially assigned call letters WDAU.

[18] WBBG was deleted in the fall of 1925, as Vermilya made plans to move his broadcasting activities to New Bedford.

[19] In October 1925 Vermilya, along with A. J. Lopez, was issued a license for station WNBH in New Bedford, operating on 1210 kHz.

An early transmitting antenna for the station was lifted onto the chimney of Atlas Tack Company in Fairhaven by helium-filled balloons.

[31][32] After 10 years as a full-time ESPN Radio affiliate, WNBH switched to a classic hits format on February 1, 2019.

1944 advertisement for WNBH and co-owned and recently restarted WOCB in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. [ 20 ]
Promotional ad for WNBH as ESPN 1340 New Bedford , used from 2009 to 2019.