The owner of AM station WBEN, WBEN, Inc. (a subsidiary of the Buffalo Evening News) as of October 13, 1931, had experimented with higher-frequency broadcasts for over a decade prior to launch of the station that would become WBKV.
The owner of AM station WBEN, WBEN, Inc., a subsidiary of the Buffalo Evening News, had been experimenting with higher-frequency broadcasts for over a decade before launching the station that would become WBKV on October 13, 1931.