 Radio One made many transmitter improvements and established new studios in Roxbury, a largely African American section of Boston.After weeks of dead air and a week-long stunt of a loop of Tone Lōc's "Wild Thing", the station was relaunched on December 6, 1999 as WBOT, ""Hot 97.7"", targeting the Greater Boston area with a mainstream urban format.From the very beginning, WBET-FM/WCAV/WBOT had been plagued by a poor signal in Boston and points north.