 WBUT originally was issued a construction permit to operate at the frequency of 1580 kHz, upon which it operated at a power of 500 watts for a period of several years after going on the air.The station first operated from the Nixon Hotel in downtown Butler, where Morgan Center stands today.WRYO, a radio station that debuted at 1050 kHz in 1948 in Rochester, Pennsylvania in adjacent Beaver County, Pennsylvania failed by 1955, leaving its channel available for WBUT, which uses this channel today.