 1950s and 1980s music are currently played sporadically, less than once an hour; as of the 2014 online revival, Shannon acknowledges the addition of “a few (songs) tossed in from the 80s.”

The True Oldies format had experienced significant growth in exposure following cost-cutting measures across Citadel's payroll since the company's acquisition of ABC Radio Networks (and some of its O&O stations) from Disney.Lower performing stations owned by Citadel Broadcasting, such as WYAY (now K-Love owned & operated WAKL) Atlanta, were switched over to True Oldies, sometimes with "Imus in the Morning" as the morning show.WLS-FM Chicago, however, only ran True Oldies Channel overnights and weekends with a similar local oldies format weekdays.