Owned by the Beasley Broadcast Group, its studios are on Executive Center Drive North, near Gandy Boulevard in St. Petersburg.

It was founded on their own playful, irreverent, and provocative interaction, with spontaneous bits of parody leavened with straight news.

[4] Dave Saint, Jack Harris, Bill Garcia, Uncle Johnny, Alan O’Brien, Tedd Webb, Pat McKay, Steve Kelly, and Mason Dixon were all involved with the station as on-air personalities.

Q105 quickly overtook WLCY-FM, which had signed on three years earlier with an automated contemporary hits format.

[5] In addition, Edens was also running into financial trouble, partially related due to the fallout from WFLZ's competition.

In January 1992, WRBQ (AM) split from the simulcast and flipped to the satellite-fed urban AC service "The Touch".

[7][8] At 1:05 p.m. on April 2, 1993, after playing "Real Love" by Jody Watley and "Happy Trails" by Roy Rogers, WRBQ-FM flipped to a country format, which began with a weekend of all-Garth Brooks music.

The country station kept the "Q105" name and logo (albeit colored in a red, white and blue motif).

In February 1999, as a result of the merger of Clear Channel and Jacor, WRBQ was sold to Infinity Broadcasting, later CBS Radio, and became WQYK's sister station.

In 2013, Brian Thomas programmed WRBQ and sister station WQYK for a short period of time.

These include cuts from the "Positron", "Outstanding", "The Rock", "FM", "The Flame Thrower", "Warp Factor", "Red Hot", "Power Station", "Skywave," "Turbo Z," and "Z World" packages, all from JAM Creative Productions.

The addition of the MJ Morning Show resulted in Mason Dixon moving back to the afternoon drive time slot.

In 2024 the Q105 management team found themselves embroiled in controversy for letting go of radio personality Froggy, Mike Cusimano.

The lay offs were speculated to occur largely because Froggy had information about inappropriate conduct amongst the Beasley Media group/ Q105 Management.

At one time, WRBQ was the flagship radio station for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the National Football League.