 The Department of Commerce granted John S. Skane a license for a new station on 1300 kHz on February 20, 1925, with the sequentially assigned call letters WHBG.In late 1926 ownership was transferred to Macks Battery Service, and the call letters changed to WMBS.The station later operated on 820 kHz, and the Federal Radio Commission (FRC) reallocated the station on June 1, 1927 to 1280 kHz.