[2] In 1995, Alex Langer entered into an agreement to pay the then-owners of the station to return the WRPT license to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in order to upgrade the facilities of his 1060 in Natick, Massachusetts, WBIV (now WQOM).

[6] Local talk programming was subsequently added to the schedule (such as an afternoon show hosted by Upton Bell[7]), much of it simulcast on the original WSRO (1470) in Marlborough after Langer bought it in 1998.

[12] The next year, the station switched to a religious talk format,[2] and in December assumed the WSRO callsign from 1470, which was sold to Multicultural Broadcasting and became WAZN in Watertown.

That August, Langer agreed to purchase WBUR's 1240 AM facility in West Yarmouth (on Cape Cod) to serve the Portuguese-speaking community there;[16] that station would become WBAS.

(A plan in March 2009 to launch similar programming on WJOE, operating from the Framingham studio but serving western Massachusetts and other parts of New England,[17] did not materialize.)

[18] Langer took the station and its translator silent on July 9, 2020, due to financial difficulties;[19] WBAS 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.

[19] In October 2021, WSRO filed with the FCC to end its AM analog transmission on 650 kHz and convert to digital-only MA3 operations effective December 1;[21] it was the fourth station to make this transition, joining WWFD in Frederick, Maryland; WMGG in Tampa, Florida; and WFAS in White Plains, New York.