[8] In 1928, WAPI returned to Birmingham, in part due to the NBC Red Network's interest in affiliating with a station in Alabama's largest city.

The Newhouse chain bought The Birmingham News in 1956, and sold off the broadcast outlets to separate owners in 1980, at which time the TV station acquired its current callsign.

In the 1950s, as network radio programming began to lose its importance due to television's popularity, WAPI 1070 evolved.

It became a full service, middle-of-the-road station of popular music, news and sports, featuring several local call-in shows at night.

However, three months later, WAPI immediately returned to adult standards programming when crosstown rival WSGN (now WAGG) dropped that format.

On February 22, 2010, WWMM-FM (100.5) changed its call sign to WAPI-FM and dropped its former adult album alternative music format.

However, on July 24, 2013, WAPI-FM changed its call letters to WJQX and flipped to ESPN Radio as a sister station to WJOX and WJOX-FM.

[10] Although it boasts the most powerful daytime signal in Alabama, WAPI does not travel as far as most other 50,000-watt stations due to the region's poor ground conductivity.

It does, however, cover all of central Alabama during the day from a single tower, and can be heard as far away as the Atlanta suburbs under the right atmospheric conditions.