The station's weather forecasts are provided by WLUK-TV in Green Bay, a deal that was retained despite WLUK losing cable carriage in Sheboygan in 2011 due to outside corporate factors involving Fox programming.

They were commonly hired out for a few weeks at a time to theaters located in small towns that didn't have their own radio stations, to be used for special programs broadcast to the local community.

(Regulating "moving targets" proved difficult, so in May 1928 the Federal Radio Commission announced it was ending the licensing of portable facilities.

The debut broadcast took place at 7:30 p.m. on February 23, 1928, and editor Charles E. Broughton's opening statement summarized the events of the preceding months: "Tonight we return to the air over WHBL, a new station taking the place of WHBM, which was closed December 30, owing to a ruling by the Musicians' Union establishing a minimum charge of $3 per person.

When we announced in early December that the station would eventually close unless we had the wholehearted support of the union, there were many who felt it was an idle boast, but we were never more sincere.

After the station was closed, radio fans in this and neighboring counties realized the loss to the community, and urged action on the part of the Musicians' Union for a more favorable rate.

With that obstacle removed, we laid plans for again going on the air, but it required a lot of additional labor, on our part, as well as expense, for Station WHBM had been transferred to Oklahoma.

Talk show host Jerry Bader was let go from Midwest Communications after his February 8, 2018 program, and he claimed his "never Trump" political stance had caused friction with station management, which ended his run on WHBL.