It is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc., and airs a black-oriented news format as an affiliate of the co-owned Black Information Network.
WXBN uses a highly directional antenna array (8 towers) to prevent interference to WHSQ's nighttime skywave signal.
[2] A construction permit was granted to Florida City Radio by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on February 18, 2008, to start this station.
iHeartMedia began operating WZAB under a local marketing agreement (LMA) on October 1, 2020, with the intention of making it Miami's Black Information Network outlet.
It was part of a deal in which WZAB would be swapped to iHeart in exchange for KKDD in San Bernardino, California, W292DH in Pittsburgh, and $1 million.