WSRO
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| Broadcast area | MetroWest |
| Frequency | 650 kHz (HD Radio) (digital only) |
| Branding | AM 650 WSRO |
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| History | |
First air date | May 19, 1970 (in Peterborough, New Hampshire) |
Last air date | May 31, 2024 (54 years, 12 days) |
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| Technical information | |
| Facility ID | 52398 |
| Class | D |
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Transmitter coordinates | 42°17′17.35″N 71°25′53.22″W / 42.2881528°N 71.4314500°W |
| Translator(s) | 102.1 W271CU (Framingham) |
WSRO (650 HD Radio) was a radio station with a digital-only transmission on a standard AM band frequency. Licensed to Ashland, Massachusetts, it served the MetroWest area. The station was owned by Alex Langer, through Langer Broadcasting Group, LLC. WSRO also operated translator station W271CU (102.1 FM) in Framingham.
Rooted in a station in Peterborough, New Hampshire, WSCV (later WMDK and WRPT), that operated from 1970 to 1991, the WRPT license was moved to Ashland in 1997. Initially relaunching as a talk station, the station later moved to religious programming, before spending much of the 2000s and 2010s as a Portuguese station for Framingham's Brazilian community. After the station ended its Brazilian programming and went silent in 2020 due to financial problems, it became a jazz station. It converted from analog to digital-only operations in 2021, and moved to a classical music format in 2022, before again going silent in 2023 following Langer's death. It briefly returned to the air in 2024, but by 2025 had ceased operations for good.