After being issued a construction permit, the station signed on the air in August 1982 as WXCR with a classical music format. On September 28, 1989, the station flipped to oldies, branded first as "Oldies 92.5", then later rebranded as "U92." On April 18, 2002, a major change took place at WYUU. Sister station WRBQ-FM, which aired a country format at the time, swapped formats with WYUU. This was done at the behest of U92 program director Mason Dixon, who was once a popular personality on Q105 when it was a Top-40 powerhouse throughout the 1980s and wanted to return there. WYUU thus became a country station and was dubbed "Country 92.5", before rebranding as "Kickass Country, Outlaw Country 92.5." It was a NASCAR Nextel Cup Series radio affiliate and also brought The Cowhead Show over from WRBQ. However, Outlaw 92.5 found itself as the third country station in a two country station market when Clear Channel’s WTBT flipped to Country as WFUS on April 14, 2005. With sister stationWQYK-FM also playing country in the market, it became obvious to many observers that something had to give, particularly with country stations out of Polk County and Sarasota edging into the fringes of the Tampa/St. Petersburg/Clearwater market. Finally, on August 7, 2005, WYUU flipped to a tropical music format following its broadcast of the Indianapolis Brickyard 400 NASCAR race. After three commercials, an announcement told listeners that a new format had come to the signal: "La Nueva 92.5, The Latin Sound ofTampa Bay." It became the second tropical station of Infinity Broadcasting after WLZL in Washington, D.C./Baltimore, which also signed on the same year. In October 2008, WYUU was rebranded as Maxima 92.5. With this, WYUU began leaning towards rhythmic hits, but still reported by Mediabase and Nielsen BDS as a tropical station. On October 2, 2014, CBS Radio announced that it would trade all of their Charlotte and Tampa stations, as well as WIP in Philadelphia, to the Beasley Broadcast Group in exchange for 5 stations located in Miami and Philadelphia. The swap was completed on December 1, 2014. In 2015, WYUU added some English Pop music into their playlist, making them a Rhythmic-leaning Latin Pop station.
WYUU-HD2
WYUU signed on HD Radio operations in 2006. WYUU-HD1 airs the same programming as the analog frequency, while WYUU-HD2 aired a salsa music format, branded as "Maxima Exitos." On January 22, 2017, WYUU-HD2 began simulcasting on translator 106.9 W295CF, and began stunting with remixed Miami bass music as "El Booty", branding themselves as “The Official Station For Latina Strippers Of Tampa Bay”. Following the stunt, 106.9/92.5 HD2 launched a Spanish Tropical format as "Playa 106.9", a format found on sister station W251AL/WRXK-FM-HD2 in nearby Fort Myers ; a Facebook page for "" was established a week before, on the 13th, featuring a logo promoting the signals.
