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WBT (known today as News 1110/99-3 WBT) is a radio station in Charlotte, North Carolina The station dates to December 1920, when Fred Laxton, Earle Gluck and Frank Bunker set up an amateur radio station in Laxton's home. Four months later, the station received an experimental license as 4XD. The trio decided to go commercial in 1922, and incorporated as the Southern Radio Corporation. On April 10, the station signed on as the first fully licensed radio station south of Washington, D.C. WSB in Atlanta was the first station in the Southeast to actually broadcast, a month before WBT. Home of The Briarhoppers, Dick Hartman's Tennessee Ramblers (Hartman's Heart Breakers) and other early country swing bands.