In the early years, the station was the first in broadcasting an all-music video format from Satellite Program Network as secondary from 5 a.m. to 2 a.m.
Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, WNYX-LP aired community programming, some of which was produced by local businesses and public-access television studios.
A movie review program hosted by Stu Lee was broadcast, and music videos were reintroduced after seven years.
In 2009, around the same time Pulse 87 audio programming was being aired over co-owned WNYZ-LP, the entire programming lineup was dropped in favor of another format called The Jared Whitham Channel featuring Jared Whitham, a bespectacled local area comic/musician.
WNYX-LP temporarily signed off in October 2009, along with co-owned WNXY and WXNY, in order to build out digital transmitting facilities.
Programming consisted of silent black-and-white movies featuring Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton.
However, due a fraud investigation which the founder was found guilty in 2013, the station went offline and displayed SMPTE Color Bars.
As of September 2013, WNYX-LD was off the air, with the CCTV co-affiliation going to sister station WNXY Channel 43.