[14] While Westinghouse Broadcasting[15] and B-Mass Holding Company had expressed interest,[16][17] by 1998, WKOX was the last remaining radio station in the Fairbanks portfolio.

[21] WKOX completed the transmitter and city of license move to Newton in the fall of 2008, and began broadcasting at 50,000 watts full-time in April 2009.

On September 4, WXKS (1430 AM) broke from the WKOX simulcast and flipped to a Spanish adult hits format, branded as "Mia 1430".

Clear Channel announced in January 2010 that WKOX would once again change to a talk format in April;[22] the launch was stepped up to March 8 after WRKO dropped The Rush Limbaugh Show from its line-up.

On February 27, 2013, Clear Channel announced that WXKS would begin to carry Bloomberg Radio's financial news and information programming as of March 1.

[30] After Bloomberg's local marketing agreement with WXKS ended on March 1, 2018, the station took on the conservative talk programming that had been on WKOX, including Rush Limbaugh.

[31] WKOX returned to a tropical music format and was moved into a trust ownership, and would later eventually donated to Delmarva Educational Association.

The simulcast on WJMN's HD2 channel ended in November 2018, when it was replaced with iHeartMedia's "Breeze" soft adult contemporary programming.

[32] In September 2021, WXKS reappeared on the HD Radio dial, this time on the third sub-channel of sister station WZLX, replacing K-Love.

Initially, during its conservative talk format, WXKS carried some programming from Fox Sports Radio, including its morning show.