The station currently airs an eclectic adult album alternative music format, branded as "88Nine Radio Milwaukee".

[2] WYMS transmits from the WITI TV Tower in Shorewood and has their studios at 220 E. Pittsburgh Avenue in the Walker's Point area, with backup facilities maintained at the former main studios in the MPS administration building on W. Vliet Street in the Washington Park neighborhood.

[3] The Vliet studios continue to be maintained for school board meetings and for FCC correspondence, which remains under the purview of MPS.

In the spring of 2002, Milwaukee Public Schools had a budget shortfall and the station's operations were handed over to WUWM at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.

After many delays and target sign-on dates, the station dropped the automated jazz programming and began stunting on February 23, 2007.