[4] WOCB shut down in May 1943 after running out of money, resulting in its license being canceled by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on November 30.

In 1991, Hurricane Bob blew down WOCB's transmitter tower, and the damage suffered was so severe that the owners could not afford to rebuild.

Concurrently, WOCB became WUOK,[10] and under that call sign programmed CNN Headline News,[11] sports radio,[12] and finally a WXTK simulcast.

[19] In December 2014, WBAS and WZBR began carrying some separate programming from WSRO;[20] by 2015, the three stations were jointly branded as "Rede ABR".

[21] Langer Broadcasting took the station and its translator silent in mid-July 2020, due to financial difficulties; WSRO and WZBR (the latter of which had left "Rede ABR" to carry a brokered R&B format a few years earlier) also concurrently suspended operations.

[23] The station operated as part of a three-station network originating from WJTO in Bath, Maine, which also included WJIB in Cambridge.

[24] In February 2024, Bob Bittner Broadcasting agreed to sell WBAS to Gary Hanna's GCJH Inc, owner of WGTX-FM in Truro, for $130,000; under a local marketing agreement, WBAS began simulcasting WGTX on February 14, with the "Memories Station" programming moving to WGTX's third HD Radio channel under a $1-a-year lease.