Under its previous call sign WQUN, the station aired the adult standards format America's Best Music from Westwood One before going silent on May 31, 2019.
[3] The station resumed broadcasting on May 28, 2020, to satisfy FCC requirements and retain the license for another six months until returning to the air with reduced power on May 8, 2021.
In the early hours of the morning of January 21, 1965, a fire broke out that destroyed the station's studios at 473 Denslow Hill Road in Hamden.
[10] However, WDEE was sold in June 1967, to Noel Coté, Frank Delfino, and Ted Quale, the owners of Bridgeport radio station, WICC.
The show featured doo-wop and pre-Beatles rock and roll on Sunday afternoons until the station's sign-off at sundown.
[citation needed] In 1978, Robert Herpe, owner of WPLR in New Haven, purchased the station and adopted a format targeted specifically to women.
Within months, Hartford's WDRC-FM shifted to oldies and forced Hamden's 1220 AM into its next incarnation in 1988, as WXCT ("Exciting 'XCT") with a locally produced adult contemporary format.
In January 2019, Quinnipiac announced that WQUN would cease operations at the end of May, citing the AM station's decreasing relevance to the student population.