[2][3][4] The station that would become WHVN on the 1240 frequency in Charlotte began operations in 1929 in Gastonia, North Carolina, on 1210 kHz, with the sequentially assigned call letters WRBU.

On November 29, 1930, the call sign was changed to WSOC, supposedly meaning "We Serve Our City"; three years later, the station moved from Gastonia to Charlotte.

[citation needed] In 1972, the progressive rock format was shifted to WIST-FM at 95.1 MHz, and their calls were changed to WRNA.

[citation needed] General manager Garrett Allen called the format "a venture into the unknown" and a "radical departure" that he believed no other station in the Southeastern united States was doing.

Future John Boy and Billy sidekick Robert D. Raiford hosted one of the talk shows, the "no-holds-barred" program "Rebel without a Pause", which aired first from 10 A.M. to noon for two weeks and then from 6:30 to 10 A.M. each morning starting August 13, 1973.

Munn initially changed the format to adult contemporary music and brought his family into the employ of the station.

Longtime AM country music leader WAME was purchased by Jimmy Swaggart Ministries and became a religious station.

[16][17] On February 1, 2019, The Carolina Catholic Radio Network entered into an LMA with GHB Broadcasting to operate WCGC.

After the owner's death in 2013, a trustee was told to continue the businesses but eventually sell them in order to care for his widow.

[22] On November 2, 2020, WHVN returned to the air using a long wire antenna attached to the STL tower behind the studios on North Tryon Street.

GHB Radio Inc. bought WHVN for $20,000 in 2020, and in March 2021, announced the station's sale to Stuart Epperson's Truth Broadcasting Corporation for $55,000.