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WPEP ( AM) was an AM radio station licensed to Taunton, Massachusetts. WPEP's format had been full service, offering local news and talk programming, as well as music and nationally syndicated talk. The station was last owned by the Anastos Media Group.

In late , Silver City Broadcasting Corp., owned by businessman John McGregor, applied for and was granted a construction permit for an AM broadcast station in Taunton. The station's callsign was originally to be WTRN, however the callsign was changed to WPEP before the station officially signed on the air December 22, 1949. When WPEP signed on, its studio was located atop the Roseland Ballroom, north of downtown Taunton. The original format is believed to have been all local programming. WPEP was a 1 daytime only station from to This meant that WPEP was required to cease transmitting from sunset to sunrise. WPEP's transmitter site was 760 County Street in Taunton, Massachusetts.

On November 27, 1970, WPEP received pre sunrise authority, allowing it to sign on at with a power of 350, which could be upped to the full kilowatt at sunrise (during months when sunrise occurs later than ). News Director at the time was John P. Shaw.

Daytime only status lasted until September 1, 1986, when WPEP was granted nighttime authorization, which allowed WPEP to transmit 227.4 of power.

WPEP was sold in by Silver City Broadcasting to J. Keating Willcox's Willow Farm Broadcasting.

This would be the final calendar decade of WPEP's existence. WPEP was sold to Anastos Media Group in Paul Giammarco was named general manager in until he left for WSAR in After Giammarco left, staffer A. J. Nicholson was promoted to general manager. In , WPEP added the Boston Red Sox Radio Network and carried the team's first World Series victory heard on radio. It was an affiliate in as well but station management had changed that March and did not air games. A May 5, 2005, article in the Taunton Daily Gazette said that the station was in jeopardy because WNSH in Beverly, Massachusetts, got approval from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to increase their daytime power.