The station airs a hot adult contemporary format, switching to Christmas music for much of November and December.

The North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement (NARBA) in 1941 moved its dial position to 1450 kHz.

It was unique among stations on the Gulf Coast of Florida to run hourly news updates before this was a common practice.

On January 3, 2014 WSDV and its simulcast sister station WDDV 1320 AM in Venice, Florida, rebranded themselves as "Sunny" and diverted from adult standards to an Oldies/Soft AC format.

[4] On November 1, 2017, WSDV split from its simulcast with WDDV and began playing Christmas music.