Owned by Urban One, its studios are located at Centennial Plaza in Downtown Cincinnati and its transmitter site is in Eden Park.

[3] Following the establishment of the Federal Radio Commission (FRC), stations were initially issued a series of temporary authorizations starting on May 3, 1927.

[4] In addition, they were informed that if they wanted to continue operating, they needed to file a formal license application by January 15, 1928, as the first step in determining whether they met the new "public interest, convenience, or necessity" standard.

[5] On May 25, 1928, the FRC issued General Order 32, which notified 164 stations, including WFBE, that "From an examination of your application for future license it does not find that public interest, convenience, or necessity would be served by granting it.

Scripps-Howard Newspapers (now the E. W. Scripps Company) purchased the station in October 1935, renaming it WCPO after The Cincinnati Post.

Scripps-Howard sold the station to Kaye-Smith Broadcasting whose principals were entertainer Danny Kaye and business associate Lester Smith, in January 1966.

They operated the station along with their FM sister (which was renamed WUBE-FM), until the late 1970s, when they sold all their radio properties to Plough Broadcasting, then a part of the pharmaceutical company, Schering-Plough.

On this date, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted DKM the ability to broadcast the 1230 frequency at 1,000 watts 24 hours a day.

During this time, the station aired a few seasons of Cincinnati Cyclones hockey and some other weekend sports programming separate from the FM.

After the move, WUBE aired a "modern standards"-based music format called "Retro Radio", but in January 1998, this was dropped in favor of returning to sports, simulcasting some programs with WBOB to make up for individual signal deficiencies on both stations.

Blue Chip then launched the "Buzz" format consisting of urban talk programs on August 23, 2000, and the call letters WDBZ were adopted at the same time.