The frequency of 107.9 MHz was originally assigned by the Federal Communications Commission to Westport, Connecticut, under its Table of Allocations. On September 1, 1962, WMMM-FMsigned on the air. It was the FM counterpart to WMMM. WMMM-AM-FM were owned by the Westport Broadcasting Company headed by Sydney J. Flamm. WMMM was a daytimer station. When it went off the air at sunset each evening, WMMM-FM allowed its programming to continue to be heard. The stations broadcast out of offices and studios located above a deli at 163 Main Street in Westport. The broadcasting antenna for 107.9 FM was located in a residential neighborhood in Wilton, to the chagrin of neighbors. The power was 5,200 watts, a fraction of its current output, with an antenna height above average terrain of only 79 feet, so the broadcast radius of the station was quite limited. In 1970, 107.9 got the new call signWDJF. The FM station continued to simulcast WMMM for a few more years. But later, the format switched to an automatedadult contemporary sound. It also got a boost to 50,000 watts of power, relocating to a taller tower. Over the next two decades, the station's ownership changed several times. In 1984, the station was acquired by a company known as "The 108 Radio Company Ltd. Partnership," with the call letters switching to WEBE. The automation ended and live DJs handled most air shifts. In 1987, the ownership changed to a company calling itself "WEBE Associates." In 2000, ownership changed again, this time to Nassau Broadcasting LLC. And two years later, Cumulus Media, one of America's largest radio companies, acquired Nassau Broadcasting, in March 2002. Cumulus also owned WICC, making the two stations partners, with WICC airing a talk format and WEBE continuing its AC sound. On April 15, 2019, Cumulus Media announced that WEBE and WICC would be swapped to Connoisseur Media, which began operating the stations under a local marketing agreement on May 1, 2019. The swap was consummated on June 26, 2019.
HD radio
Cumulus Broadcasting began upgrading its stations to HD Radio broadcasting in 2005. One of the first ten stations to get changed to HD transmission was WEBE. WEBE's HD-2 subchannel carries the talk format heard on co-owned WICC.
