Weekdays begin with news, talk and information shows hosted by Jess Tyler, Bill Newman and Buz Eisenberg.

Weekends feature specialty shows on health, pets, technology, travel, cars and gardening.

For much of its early decades, it aired a full service format of middle of the road (MOR) music, news, talk and sports.

Because of the migration of most progressive talk shows to off-air platforms, Saga announced plans to drop the format from WNYY in Ithaca effective February 1, 2017;[11] WHNP received WNYY's translator under a policy that allows translators to be moved up to 250 miles from their original city of license.

[14] Until February 1, 2021, WHMQ in Greenfield had its own translator, W298CA (107.5 FM); that facility then launched a soft adult contemporary format originating from the HD2 channel of WPVQ-FM.