The station is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc.[3] and airs a news/talk format serving the Portsmouth-Dover-Rochester media market which also includes part of Southern Maine.

Weekdays begin with a news and interview show, New Hampshire Today, hosted by Chris Ryan, also heard on several other stations in the state.

Syndicated weekend shows include The Tech Guy with Leo Laporte, Sunday Night Live with Bill Cunningham and Somewhere in Time with Art Bell.

The call letters were then changed to WQSO on September 29, 1997,[8] coinciding with a format flip to oldies, mirroring sister station WQSR in Baltimore, also owned by American Radio Systems at that time.

On April 1, 2009, Clear Channel (now iHeartMedia) flipped WQSO from oldies to talk radio while keeping the “Wave” name.