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**95 WXTK Newsradio**
Broadcast area	Cape Cod
First air date	1949 (FM) (as WOCB)
Frequency	95.1 MHz FM
Format	Commercial; News/Talk
Callsign meaning	W X-treme TalK (proposed, but never used, station branding)
Owner	Qantum of Cape Cod, LLC

WXTK (95 WXTK Newsradio) is a news/talk radio station licenced in West Yarmouth, Massachusetts and headquartered in Hyannis, Massachusetts.

WXTK is the direct descendant of Cape Cod's first commercial radio station WOCB, which first signed on in 1941 as an affiliate of the NBC Blue Network, playing mostly news and talk programming, as was NBC Blue's network format.

WOCB was also the Cape's first commercial FM radio station, signing on its FM signal in 1949, and eventually settling to 94.9 FM, continuing the same news and talk format.

WOCB fell victim to hurricanes twice in its lifetime. In 1944 and 1991, hurricanes blew down WOCB's transmitter, but in 1991, the damage suffered from Hurricane Bob was so severe that they could not afford to rebuild. The station was then sold to Ernie Boch, an automobile dealer in the Boston area, who turned WOCB into the flagship station for his new Boch Broadcasting company, and changed the station's calls to WXTK when it returned to the air in late 1991. There was no format switch, however; WXTK remained a news and talk station, and over the next few years would become the Cape's home of such popular syndicated hosts as Rush Limbaugh, G. Gordon Liddy (recently cancelled from the station as of July 2006), and Howie Carr, and longtime local morning hosts Ed Lambert and Don McKeag.

In September, 1997, responding to listener comments of signal interference from a powerful 94.9 FM signal based out of New Hampshire, WXTK changed their frequency to 95.1 FM, increasing their signal radius significantly.

In 2005, Boch Broadcasting sold WXTK and sister station WCOD to Qantum Communications (now called Qantum of Cape Cod, LLC), owner of WRZE (96.3 The Rose) and WCIB (Cool 102). Until that sale, WOCB/WXTK had been broadcasting from the same studio building for over 60 years.