 On May 29, 1944, WRAK, Inc. applied to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for a construction permit for a new FM station on 47.7 MHz on the original 42-50 MHz FM broadcast band.On June 27, 1945, the FCC created the current FM broadcast band.On November 21, 1945, the FCC granted the construction permit by which time the commission had assigned the WRAK-FM call sign to the station.