Studios are located at the City University of New York's Graduate Center at 365 Fifth Avenue,[2] and the transmitter is at the former Condé Nast Building.

[3] On weekday late mornings and afternoons, the station airs news programming from NPR and other public radio organizations.

That includes the NPR news show All Things Considered, Here and Now from WBUR-FM in Boston and 1A, a news and interview program from WAMU in Washington, D.C. Late nights, music programs are heard including the World Cafe from WXPN Philadelphia, Afropop Worldwide from Public Radio Exchange and Echoes which specializes in ambient and electronic music.

Evenings and weekends are devoted to ethnic programming for the Greek, Irish, Croatian, Haitian, Slavic and Brazilian communities.

After monitoring the first group of Apex stations assignments, the FCC realized that, due to the strengthening of the ionosphere during periods of high solar activity, at times the lower end of the VHF frequencies would produce strong, and undesirable, skywave signals that were heard as far way as Australia.

This determination led to the FCC moving the developing broadcasting service stations to higher frequencies that were less affected by solar influences.

In October 1937, the FCC announced a sweeping allocation of frequency assignments that included a band for Apex stations, consisting of 75 channels with 40 kHz separations, and spanning from 41.02 to 43.98 MHz.

[10] Prior to switching over to FM, WNYE received a series of special authorizations that permitted it to continue to use its Apex AM transmitter until June 29, 1941.