The station's programming includes fine Bluegrass, Country and Western, classic Rock, Reggae, Jazz and Oldies music.

WAPJ, originally licensed to the Litchfield County Commission for Higher Education, came on the air in May 1997 with both the studio and antenna located on the UCONN Torrington campus.

The station operated with 100 watts ERP from this location but had some coverage problems due to high terrain to the west and north of the site.

Even though the FCC required that the power be reduced to 40 watts, the greatly increased height of the antenna resulted in a significant improvement in coverage.

In 2018 an old-time-radio style show began to be produced at WAPJ called Nutmeg Junction and the program is shared with other non-commercial community radio stations.