It airs a country music format and is owned by iHeartMedia The studios are in the central part of Watterson Park.

WAMZ carries two nationally syndicated radio programs: The Bobby Bones Show in morning drive time and After Midnite with Granger Smith overnights.

The WCJT call sign represented the initials of The Courier-Journal and Louisville Times, which were owned by the Bingham family.

Seeing little chance to make it profitable, the Binghams returned WHAS-FM's license to the FCC on December 31, 1950.

Public station WFPK, which also ran a classical programming schedule, received the WHAS-FM music library as a donation from the Binghams.

In 1979, radio personality Coyote Calhoun was hired as program director and morning host.