WOPG operates with 5,000 watts of power non-directional by day, and employs a directional antenna at night to protect other stations on AM 1460.

The original WOKO was first licensed, with the sequentially issued call letters WDBX, in June 1924 to Otto Baur at 138 Dyckman Street in New York City.

Without a network affiliation, and limited nighttime hours due to having to share its frequency with WHEC-WABO (now WHIC) in Rochester, the station was unprofitable.

[13] WOKO received approval from the Federal Radio Commission (FRC) to make the changes suggested by Pickard.

The station became profitable, due to its expanded hours of operation, combined with CBS's lineup of comedies, news, sports, soap operas, game shows and big band broadcasts during the "Golden Age of Radio".

However, before the renewal process began, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) unearthed evidence that the station owner, WOKO, Inc., had not fully disclosing the company's stockholders.

On March 27, 1945, the Commission "concluded that the applicant cannot be entrusted with the responsibilities of a licensee" and denied renewal of WOKO's license.

A hearing was held reviewing three competing applications for WOKO's replacement, and on October 21, 1947, the FCC chose the Governor Dongan Broadcasting Corporation.

[17] WOKO became an independent, locally-focused station with a format consisting largely of music, a rarity in that era for a market of the Capital District's size.

[18] In the 1950s and early 60s, WOKO aired a full service, middle of the road format of popular music, news and sports.

In an opening paragraph of Ian Fleming's 1962 novel The Spy Who Loved Me, protagonist Vivienne Michel travels to central New York state and recounts listening to WOKO, with the parenthetical comment "they might have dreamed up a grander callsign!".

Though initially regaining some audience, the flip of the more powerful 1540 WPTR to country later that year wiped away any gains the station had made.

Though lower in overhead, the new station also retained the low ratings of the previous format and soon added some talk programming.

The demise of WWCN led to the return of the WOKO call sign, this time running an oldies format and converting to C-QUAM AM stereo (only the second station in the market, behind WPTR, to do so).

It was the only Disney-owned outlet in Upstate New York, although a local owner in the Syracuse area converted several of his stations to Radio Disney as well.