The station is licensed to Coral Gables and it serves South Florida including the Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood radio market.

The station uses HD Radio technology and offers contemporary Gospel music, branded as "Joy 105", on the HD2 channel.

"Hot 105" airs the nationally syndicated Rickey Smiley Morning Show from 6 to 10 a.m. On November 15, 1958, 105.1 FM signed on as WVCG-FM.

Its signal really wasn't much stronger than other stations because its antenna was under sixty meters (200 feet) height above average terrain (HAAT).

The station's initial musical slant was described as "triethnic", playing a mix of R&B, Freestyle Dance, Hip-Hop, and Pop hits, all targeted at Miami's young black, white, and Hispanic audience, but by 1987, WHQT moved a bit closer to Mainstream Top 40, playing a larger dose of contemporary artists popular at the time such as Rick Astley, Madonna and Def Leppard.

Another notable feature of the station during this era was a no DJ music intensive daypart from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., predating the current trend in automated jockless radio.

WHQT has won the prestigious NAB Marconi Radio Award for "Urban Station of the Year" under Director of Branding and Programming Phil Michaels-Trueba, 4 times, starting in 2014, and then again in 2017, 2019, and most recently in 2023.