 The station first signed on the air as WHYP on September 5, 1966, founded by James D. Brownyard.It was joined less than two years later by its like-named sister station, WHYP-FM (now WRKT), operating at 100.9.Like many co-owned FM stations of the era, it simulcast its AM sister during the daytime and provided local radio service after the AM station left the air after local sunset.