WFNS 1150 AM and WFNS-FM 104.3 (later 93.9) simultaneously signed on February 24th, 1947 under the ownership of the Burlington and Graham Broadcasting Company, which was formed by six local businessmen: Lawrence Neese Sr., Bowman Sanders, Bill Coble, Homer Andrews, Rufus Blanchard and Everette Quails. Studios were located in downtown Burlington next to the State Theatre with the transmitter site on Burch Bridge Road. In 1951, the WFNS stations moved to the upper level of the Patterson Building. In 1964, the stations changed their call letters to WBAG and WBAG-FM and began airing a Top 40 format. The year 1970 brought another move to a newly constructed building at 939 South Main Street. On April 13th, 1979, WBAG changed its call letters to WQRB, while the FM side remained WBAG. In 1983, Burlington and Graham Broadcasting was bought out by Chapel Hill-based Village Companies (now Vilcom). WBAG-FM was moved into the Raleigh-Durham market as Top 40/CHR WZZU "94Z" (now WKSL), while WQRB 1150 was sold to Falcon Communications, Incorporated and remained in Burlington,again moving to studios at Burlington Executive Plaza. On September 14th, 1984, the WBAG call letters returned to 1150 AM. Falcon owned the station until 1993. There were two additional owners before Gray Broadcasting bought the station in 2000, constructing new studios at the WBAG transmitter site on Burch Bridge Road. Format-wise, the station has shifted between popular standards, news/talk and back to popular standards since its Top 40 days and retains a heavy, community-oriented focus on Burlington and Alamance County. Actor Ted Knight (1924-1986) from "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and the movie "Caddyshack", is rumored to have worked here in the early 1950s, and Graham native John "John Boy" Isley of the syndicated "John Boy and Billy Big Show" got his start in radio here.