At the time, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations did not allow co-owned stations in different broadcast services to share the same base callsign if they did not have the same or adjoining city of license.

As a result, the radio station was forced to change its call sign and became WUHY-FM to match the renamed WUHY-TV on channel 35.

The purchase was made through an anonymous one-million dollar grant and a non-cash agreement that included scholarships for students and teachers.

[9] The transaction was announced by Governor Chris Christie, as part of his long-term goal to end state-subsidized public broadcasting.

The governor's critics maintained that scrapping New Jersey Network effectively ended all non-commercial statewide news coverage.

They primarily serve areas of southern New Jersey not covered by the main WHYY-FM signal, which itself operates at a relatively modest 13,500 watts.

[14] In November 2022, WHYY began to reduce its New Jersey radio footprint by announcing that it would sell WNJB-FM to non-profit Christian Broadcast, The Bridge of Hope, Inc., which owns WKNZ in Harrington, Delaware.