WPJB

The station was first issued a construction permit in the fall of 1940, as WFCI, to the Pawtucket Broadcasting Company on 1390 kHz, with a transmitter site in Lincoln.

[5] WFCI was one of four radio stations in the pre-World War II Providence market (the others being WPRO, WEAN and WJAR).

[9] WFCI was sold to the Providence Journal-Bulletin in 1951; the newspaper changed the call sign to WPJB, matching their radio station on 105.1 MHz (now WWLI).

[13] However, the August 1941 adoption of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)'s "duopoly" rule restricted licensees from operating more than one radio station in a given market.

[15] The vacated assignment for 1420 AM was soon reused, when WBSM in New Bedford, Massachusetts, was given permission to move to 1420 kHz in 1956, where it remains to this day.