[2] Licensed to Sylacauga, Alabama, United States, and two of only three commercial radio stations in Talladega County, they are owned and operated by Marble City Media LLC.

Gertrude Tyson, host of the station's popular Friendly Neighbor program, later explained: "WMLS had its beginning as a dream in the minds of four young Sylacauga veterans.

The original investors, who launched the station as the Marble City Broadcasting Co. Inc., were Curtis O. Liles Jr., Henry Judson Darden Jr., Edward J. Smith, and James S. Stowers Jr., with Paul H. Sarvis and Robert H. Arnold also stockholders.

On April 14, 1986, the FCC approved the transfer of WYEA-AM and WMLS-FM to Action Communications Enterprises Inc., a North Carolina–based radio group headed by David C. Phillips.

It became WTRB-FM in 2001, and, known as WTXO-FM since 2008, it moved some 30 miles away to Ashland, Ala. On January 1, 2012, Marble City Media LLC, under a local marketing agreement with Spirit Broadcasting Co. Inc., began programming and operating the station.

From a tall tower in the southwestern part of the city, near the Talladega-Coosa County line, the FM addition began simulcasting WYEA-AM's programming just before noon on January 19, 2014.