Licensed to Evanston, Illinois, the station serves the Chicago metropolitan area and is owned by Polnet Communications, Ltd.[5] By day, WKTA transmits with 5,000 watts, but to protect other stations on 1330 AM from interference, it drops its power to 110 watts at night.
[8] In 1962, the station's transmitter was moved to an unincorporated area between Northbrook and Wheeling, and its power was increased to 5,000 watts.
[10] On June 1, 1979, the station's call sign was later changed to WPRZ, which stood for the word "Praise.
"[2] On July 14, 1979, WPRZ presented the Christian contemporary festival "Alleluia", which featured Chuck Girard.
[13] The following year the station was brought back on the air from a new site in the same area, with the WEAW callsign revived.
[17][18][8] Christian talk and teaching programs heard on WEAW included The Old-Time Gospel Hour with Jerry Falwell, Family Altar with Lester Roloff, and Insight for Living with Chuck Swindoll.
WKTA airs some automated Spanish language Mexican when hour blocks are not purchased by outside programmers.