Licensed to Newburg, Kentucky, United States, an unincorporated Census Designated Place (CDP) community in Jefferson County, that in 2003 merged alongside the rest of the county with Louisville, the station serves the Louisville area.

The station is currently owned by UB Louisville, LLC and features programming from ESPN Radio.

[2] The station went on the air on August 24, 1992, as WXKN, with a news/talk format, largely consisting of CNN Headline News programming.

[3] Word Broadcasting Network, owner of television station WBNA, acquired the station in 1999,[4] and renamed it WJIE[3] (sharing call letters with WJIE-FM, which is owned by a sister entity to Word Broadcasting Network).

[6] However, the station instead switched to ESPN Radio on September 29, (itself owned by Disney), which had previously been heard on WQKC before it was shut down by Cumulus Media the preceding August,[7] after a deal to sell the station to Chad Boeger was reached.