Tagged as "The Station That Dares to Be Different", WXB 102 targeted the youth demographic, bringing new wave music to the Philippine mainstream and inspiring regional rock artists such as the Dawn, Identity Crisis and Violent Playground, all of whom were championed by the station at a time when guitar-based OPM was ignored by the other local outlets with the exception of a weekly show on DZRJ-AM in the early 1980s.

In 1982, they were acquired by Universal Broadcasting Corporation with their studios being moved to Donada St. in Pasay near the Rizal Memorial Coliseum and in that same year they adopted the American Top 40 format with the station being dubbed as Cute 102.

By 1983, they started including new wave acts from the UK into the top 40 mix, due to the influence of the late DJ Mark Fournier and his uncle Eric Manuel eventually they would rebrand their station once again to WXB 102.

[1] In 1986, WXB 102 was the Philippines' most influential music station, its popularity putting pressure on regional labels to belatedly release the entire discographies of several new wave artists.

The new President Corazon Aquino adminsitration through the newly-formed Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) began sequestering properties owned by her predecessor Ferdinand Marcos and his cronies, including the home studio that WXB FM beamed from.

It essentially picked up where WXB 102 left off, debuting several late 1980s new wave acts such as When in Rome, Johnny Hates Jazz, Red Flag, Camouflage, C.C.C.P., the Sisters of Mercy and Information Society.

The goal back then was to introduce 102 music in cyberspace while tinkering with web and graphic design and to experiment with streaming broadcast of pre-recorded materials.

In 2006, WXB 102 started playing the most recent songs from new wave legends, and current indie and alternative acts such as Bloc Party, Franz Ferdinand, Kaiser Chiefs and the Killers, as well as reggae and ska.

WXB 102's legendary program director/DJ (and former NU107's "Ballad of the Times" co-host) George Frederick returned to the airwaves along with The Ghost, Mick Flame and Naughty Natty, one of the station's original volunteers.