[3] New England Broadcasting, owned by John Hurley, sold the station to George Steffy and Harold Glidden in 1960;[5] around this time, WNEB had a middle of the road (MOR) format.
[7] Glidden took full control of WNEB in 1975, shortly after Steffy's death;[8] soon afterward, the station shifted to a country music format.
[14] Financial problems soon forced AAMAR to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on December 4, 1990; on August 23, 1991, WNEB went dark.
[26] WNEB began moving away from religious programming in June 2007 with the addition of The Sean Hannity Show;[27] in March 2008, it switched to a full-time conservative talk format.
[30] Blount sold WNEB to Emmanuel Communications, with plans to relaunch the station with Catholic radio programming, in October 2010.
[35] Holy Family Communications, owner of WQOM in Natick and stations in New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, began operating WNEB and WESO under a local marketing agreement on January 1, 2022.