The station is currently owned by Hubbard Broadcasting, and is a full-time simulcast of Chicago-licensed WDRV (97.1 MHz), serving the Kenosha, Wisconsin–Waukegan, Illinois, area.

In a late-1968 promotional stunt, WAXO announcer Gary Anderson held a record for constant on-air broadcast duties by performing an air shift of 96.9 hours.

After lengthy testimony the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) decided to grant the AM 1500 license to the Zion-Benton Broadcasting Company of Zion (principals: Billie Bicket and family), and the station became WZBN, signing on the air on September 19, 1967.

The new ownership had ordered and installed a new Schafer automation system, then sold the three-year-old building and moved the WKZN studios to 2219 63rd Street in uptown Kenosha, which was built as a fire station.

By 1971 WKZN was moved from Kenosha to combined WZBN/WKZN studios on the second floor of the Bicket Pharmacy (a former bank building constructed in 1909) at 2700 Sheridan Road in Zion.

The AM and FM music playlists differed slightly, but the Bickets' main focus was on providing ample local news covering a beat from North Chicago, Illinois through Kenosha.

On February 12, 2001, WNIB would begin stunting as a prelude to a change to classic hits as WDRV "The Drive" a month later, while WNIZ-FM became a simulcast of new sister station, WTMX.