WTBF signed on at noon on February 25, 1947, with the roll of the timpani leading into "The Star-Spangled Banner", played by the Troy High School Band.
The original calls were to be WTBC, for Troy Broadcasting Corporation, but those letters were already taken, so they settled on WTBF.
Bob "Pappy" Tolbert, Jess Jordan, and Joe Gilchrist did wild morning shows before the genre was invented.
Joe interviewed pigs who lived at the transmitter site; Pappy gave away junk records with crazy trivia questions.
On July 16, 1969, Joe Gilchrist did a live remote of the Apollo 11 launch from Cape Canaveral.
In October 1994, WTBF made an unusual move and started "Night Visions", a modern rock program airing at 8:00 on weeknights.