The station is licensed to broadcast with 5,000 watts of power during the daytime hours but must sign off at sunset to protect co-channel WRVA (AM) in Richmond, Virginia.
The station was silent for several months pending the FCC's authorization to transfer the license and during which time the call signs were changed to WVHF - Voice of the Holy Family.
AM 1140 had a long history of serving the African-American community of Grand Rapids, originally as WKWM (the calls stood for the city of license, Kentwood, Michigan).
Less than a year later, the heritage WKWM calls were restored and the station returned to music, airing Westwood One's satellite-fed "Groovin' Oldies" package.
Programming was a combination of local hosts and ABC Radio's syndicated Urban AC format known as "The Touch" (or "Today's R&B and Old School").