[citation needed] In December 1949, it began broadcasting 24 hours a day with power increased to 5,000 watts using a directional antenna.

Initially, the music was only instrumental versions of pop standards by artists like Mantovani, Henry Mancini, Stan Kenton, Jackie Gleason, Hollyridge Strings, Ray Conniff, Percy Faith, David Rose and Ferrante & Teicher, among others.

[5][6] As a result of Federal Communications Commission regulations at the time, the company decided to sell WPAT and WPAT-FM because ABC already owned WABC and WPLJ in New York City.

Around the same time, WPAT was sold to Heftel Broadcasting and switched to an automated classic salsa–tropical music format on March 26.

The station continued running overflow sports events from WFAN in English as well as English-language public affairs programming.

The new owners of WPAT would soon modify the station to its current paid ethnic programming format, moving Radio Korea to WZRC.

Currently WPAT is the station that broadcasts Colombia's syndicated radio show La W every morning, Monday through Friday, which features personality Julio Sánchez Cristo.