WBQT's studios and offices are located in Waltham, and it transmits from atop the Prudential Tower in Boston's Back Bay neighborhood.

In 1966, WXHR was sold to a joint venture of Kaiser Broadcasting and the Boston Globe, and in 1967, became beautiful music station WJIB[2] (whose AM successor operates out of the old Harvey Radio Labs building in Cambridge).

[8][9] Smooth jazz returned at noon on August 22, 1997, after a format swap with what had been WOAZ (now WCRB); the station took on the new call sign WSJZ.

[10][11] On September 7, 1999, WSJZ flipped to talk, completing a one-month transition to the format, and the station changed its call letters to WTKK.

[14] In April 2007, WTKK management attempted to add Boston Herald columnist and talk-show host Howie Carr to its lineup, when the station's syndicated morning show Imus in the Morning was cancelled after Don Imus' comments about the Rutgers University Women's Basketball team got him fired by CBS Radio.

[16] In January 2011, WTKK dropped Imus from the lineup completely in favor of an extended edition of the local late morning team of Jim Braude and Margery Eagan.

[17] WTKK fired the controversial Jay Severin, a host since 1999, in April 2011 after he said he had slept with female interns at a company he had owned, and defended the practice.

[19] Two months later, when rival station WXKS hired Severin for afternoon drive, WTKK shuffled its lineup to place politics-heavy Michael Graham in the 3:00 p.m. slot.

In compliance with a press release by Greater Media on January 1, 2013, the station flipped at 10:00 a.m. the next day, after Jim Braude and Margery Eagan's final morning show, starting its new incarnation as urban contemporary-formatted "Power 96.9", which began with "Diamonds" by Rihanna.

On January 8, 2013, at 11:00 a.m., WTKK debuted its new, permanent format: rhythmic AC, with the branding "Hot 96.9"; "Run This Town" by Jay-Z was the first song played.

[26] According to a press release from Greater Media, the station's direction would primarily be focused on current rhythmic and dance hits mixed in with recurrents from the 1980s and 1990s, as it targeted an audience who grew up listening to WJMN in the 1990s and 2000s, but wanted an alternative to the pop/rock orientation of WBMX.

In addition, on January 4, 2013, Greater Media announced that Jackson "Cadillac Jack" McCartney has been hired as Director of Programming for all 5 stations in their Boston cluster.