The location next to the Chesapeake Bay affords it a far larger coverage area than a typical 250-watt station, as AM broadcasts travel farther over water.
It exchanged morning and afternoon programs with WIP in Philadelphia during this time, though the stations were not co-owned and it is unknown if the call sign resemblance was intentional.
On February 11, 2023, the day 103.1 FM was flipped to a relay of WRBS-FM, WYRE began broadcasting the adult album alternative programming.
The broadcast played a top of the hour legal ID that says, "The Voice of the Bay, WYRE, Annapolis and WRNR Online" with occasional "103.1 RNR" spot announcements in between songs.
[17] In late 2023 and early 2024, Cortona Media, a group including former WRNR-FM owner Steve Kingston as a minority partner, bought WYRE from Bay Broadcasting Corporation.
In a separate transaction, it bought Annapolis-licensed FM translator W260BM from Hope Christian Church of Marlton, which had an agreement to rebroadcast WNAV.
[19] After the sales closed in April 2024, Cortona petitioned the FCC to allow the translator to go silent for a maximum of 180 days "in order to make technical preparations that are necessary to change the primary station" (i.e., begin rebroadcasting WYRE).
These changes have yet to occur; the translator returned to the air under its previous technical parameters in September, continuing to rebroadcast WNAV, ahead of the expiration of the silent authority.