Owned by iHeartMedia, WARF serves the Greater Cleveland and Akron metro areas as an affiliate of Fox Sports Radio and VSiN.

WARF's studios are located in the Six Six Eight Building in Downtown Cleveland's Gateway District,[3] while the station transmitter resides in Cuyahoga Falls.

The Akron Automobile Association established a temporary station named WADC for a February 1925 auto show at the Central Garage,[5] with a transmitter built by the Willard Storage Battery Co. of Cleveland.

As the CBS affiliate during the 1930s and 1940s, WADC was the leading Akron radio station, rivaled later only by WAKR after it took to the air in 1940.

[21] Faced with competition from WQMX in Akron, along with WGAR-FM in Cleveland and WQXK in Youngstown, WSLR dropped its country format.

WTOU and sister station WKDD (96.5 FM) were sold by OBC Broadcasting to Clear Channel Communications (now iHeartMedia) on August 15, 2000.

WTOU also became the Akron-Canton affiliate for The Jim Rome Show, and became the home station for the Akron Aeros for the 2002 season.

The accompanying press release also formally repositioned WARF as a Cleveland market station, billing itself as Cleveland's Fox Sports 1350,[27][28] though the station's city of license assignment to Akron and transmitter site in Cuyahoga Falls remained unchanged.

Fox Sports Radio programming airs the bulk of the day (both during the week and on weekends - including the morning drive show featuring former Cleveland Browns quarterback Brady Quinn) with programming from VSiN also featured (early evenings and weekends).

[31][30] WARF serves as the radio home of the Cleveland Monsters of the American Hockey League (AHL),[2] and the flagship station for Cleveland State Vikings men's basketball (with any Vikings games that conflict with the Monsters sliding over to sister station WTAM 1100 AM/106.9 FM).

[32] Though primarily an English language station, WARF also airs Spanish broadcasts of Cleveland Guardians home games, complimenting the coverage on sister stations/Guardians flagships WTAM and WMMS 100.7 FM.