[3][4] The station and transmitter are co-located just north of downtown Nashville in the Cumberland Heights district.

Songwriter and producer Ted Jarrett began his music career as one of the first disc jockeys on the station.

In 1953, WSOK obtained a sister FM station on 105.9, and was WSOK-FM, which today is Nashville's WNRQ (owned by iHeart Media).

Roundsaville built WVOL a new studio and transmitter facility just north of the Downtown Nashville area, which included a daytime power increase to 5,000 watts with a two-tower directional pattern, and also adding nighttime service with 1,000 watts using a six tower directional pattern at the new facility.

In 1970, when Heidelberg was acting program director of WVOL, he was the first person to employ Oprah Winfrey, then a local high school student, as a broadcaster.

In March 2011, WVOL suffered $1 million in damage when vandals cut the transmission lines to all six of the station's towers.