It is licensed to Ladson, South Carolina, and it serves the Charleston metropolitan area.

The station is currently owned by Kirkman Broadcasting with studios in the West Ashley section of Charleston.

Its HD2 digital subchannel airs classic hip hop music, which feeds FM translator W221CI at 92.1 MHz in Summerville.

In Spring 1999, WJNI jumped from 16th in the Winter ratings to 12th; a year earlier it was not even on the air.

[3] As of August 17, 2020, the W221CI translator on 92.1 was temporarily simulcasting WJNI but planned to return to airing the HD-2 programming, which had been classic hits, heard on WQNT and W271CP 102.1.