 A few months later, he turned around and purchased WRPT outright, and in 1996 applied to move it to 650 in Ashland, Massachusetts.On February 9, 1997, the new WRPT signed on with talk programming from the Talk America network, operating from a transmitter site in Framingham shared with WKOX (now WXKS) (where it remains to this day).Local talk programming was subsequently added to the schedule (such as an afternoon show hosted by Upton Bell), much of it simulcast on the original WSRO (1470) in Marlborough after Langer bought it in 1998.