The station originally signed on November 11, 1941, at 250 watts on 1400 kHz,. as WRRN, the call letters being a contraction of "Warren". In 1946, the power was increased to 5000 watts and the frequency got changed to 1440 kHz. In 1948, it was purchased by Helen Hart Hurlburt, publisher of the
Tribune-Chronicle, and the call sign was changed to WHHH, to reflect her initialsUnder her ownership, a construction permit was obtained for a television station, WHHH-TV on channel 67 in the early 1950s. Agreement was reached for Pittsburgh's Pentecostal Temple Church to acquire WHKZ for a reported sale price of $550,000 and was eventually approved by the FCC, but eventually fell through. The station remained owned and operated by Salem Communications until August 15, 2019, when WHKZ and the construction permit for its forthcoming
FM translator was included in a multi-station purchase by Immaculate Heart Media, Inc. valued at $8,732,125; it became an
owned and operated station of the
Relevant Radio network upon the deal's closing. The sale closed on November 14, and WHKZ switched programming to the Relevant Radio network. ==References==