The 105.1 MHz facility in DeRuyter began operating June 6, 1948, as WVCN, the Central New York outlet of the farm-oriented Rural Radio Network, a six-station group based in Ithaca.
Its original General Electric 250 watt transmitter and four-section RCA FM Pylon antenna provided an ERP of 1.3 kW, horizontally-polarized.
After affiliating with New York City's WQXR, the group's programming began to shift toward classical music and a new identity as the "Northeast Radio Network" was introduced.
In January 1961, ownership of the DeRuyter facility and its four sister stations was transferred to the Ivy Broadcasting Company, Inc., prompting a callsign change to WOIV.
CBN raised funds to replace aging transmitter equipment and eliminated the off-air relay system in favor of a stereo 950 MHz link from the main studio in Ithaca.
Cram Communications, headed by Syracuse broadcast entrepreneur Craig Fox, operated the station under a religious format from 1994 to 2001, then sold it for $5 million to Clear Channel, which converted it to a simulcast of WBBS with the calls WXBB.
[15] Fox brought WZOS back on the air in August 1997 as a simulcast of his talk radio station in Syracuse, WOLF (1490 AM),[16] and changed the call sign to WOLF-FM on September 5.
[18] WOLF-FM, along with WWLF-FM (100.3) in Sylvan Beach, broke from the WOLF simulcast on December 7, 2006, and launched a rhythmic adult contemporary format under the "Movin'" brand.