On June 9th, 1949, Congressman Frank W. Hancock, Jr., and some other businessmen signed on 250-watt WOXF, Oxford and Granville County's first radio station. WOXF carried the standard full service format of that time and began to shift towards Top 40 in the 1960s. SOmewhere along the way, the station boosted its power to 1,000 watts. In 1973, WOXF became WCBQ. WCBQ aired an adult contemporary format in the 1980s and 1990s until its switch to black gospel as "Gospel 13" around mid-decade. WCBQ later began simulcasting on Henderson's WHNC, 890 AM, when both became owned by Al Woodlief, who is now the mayor of Oxford. Woodleif sold the stations in 2000 to Paradise Broadcasting. In 2005, the stations aired oldies music mixed in with talk programming. In 2007, WCBQ and WHNC were sold to the RAFTT Corp. for $440,000.