"WBH", owned by Lee Bowen, offered local news coverage focusing on the Peninsula and older syndicated fare.

[2] Beyond its own affiliation with Channel America, local productions included high school sporting events.

[8] The company planned to spend $1.5 million on an improved transmitter for channel 49 and new studio facilities and to move the syndicated inventory of WPEN to the full-power station.

[10] Cox Communications cable opted to drop WPEN from its lineup in October 1998, a decision that "killed" the station[11] and deprived it of much of its viewership.

As a result, the station dropped its independent local programming lineup and affiliated with The Box, a music video network, beginning November 1 of that year.