[4] On December 2, 1947, John E. and Irene "Reeny" A. Malloy, doing business as Voice of Little Rhody, filed for a construction permit to build a new radio station on 1540 kHz at Newport, which was granted by the Federal Communications Commission on August 4, 1948.

In February 1950, the station put a display up in its window about a controversial seawall project, charging that the developers did not comply with their original proposal.

At that time, the Newport outlet was sold to two men from Washington, D.C., Arnold S. Lerner and Myer Feldman, doing business as Key Stations.

[10] The Reservoir Road transmitter site was shut down in 1967 and a new facility built on Garfield Avenue, though the studios remained.

[13] The full-service station continued with its format, which also included a live radio variety show hosted by Saucy Sylvia.

[15] A year later, Perry purchased WOTB—giving it control of both of the commercial stations on Aquidneck Island—and announced plans to expand its coverage area.

[18] The FM station was sold off a year later to Citadel Communications, but Urso retained WADK[19] until Astro Tele-Communications purchased it and WERI-FM 99.3 for $1.8 million in 1999.