In addition to the radio broadcasting, Hot FM simulcasts the programming on television, the first one on 8TV from 2006 until 2016 where it broadcast HOT FM AM Krew and featured a interactive SMS chatbox during the program.

Hot FM previously operated as wow.fm, then WaFM, which was owned by Tiara Jacquelina.

In 2009, Hot FM went down in history as for the first time the station was charted at the top among other radio stations in Malaysia with 3.8 million weekly listeners,[1] ahead of its traditional rival Era FM which only reached 3.76 million listeners in a week.

On March 28, 2022 to September 22, 2023, Hot FM broadcast temporarily through the MYTV platform.

[3] While according to GfK RAM Survey Wave 2 in 2023, Hot FM were placed as the 3rd most listened Malay-language radio station in Malaysia.