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While Z99 was a Hot Adult Contemporary format playing a mix of hit music from the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s and today, it became a full fledged Top 40 (CHR) at night as it added hip-hop and Rhythmic Contemporary product to its rotation, thus it could be considered an Adult Top 40.
By 2012, WBBM-FM was moved to the Mediabase contemporary hit radio panel; however, it continued to report to the Nielsen BDS rhythmic contemporary panel until November 2012 when BDS moved the station back to the Mainstream Top 40 panel.
They were an urban contemporary until the 2000s, when they changed their direction to rhythmic contemporary and finally to contemporary hit radio in 2012 as the station was moved to the Mediabase contemporary hit radio panel.
But unlike the traditional Mainstream Top 40 format that was used at their sister stations, this version focused on Rhythmic Hits and did not use the trademarked blue ball.
On September 7, 2012, at 10AM, after playing "What Might Have Been" by Little Texas and the first minute and a half of "The Thunder Rolls" by Garth Brooks (which began repeating on the line "When the thunder rolls/and the lightning strikes..." before grinding to a halt that led into energizing sound effects featuring thunder and lightning), WZBK changed their format to Rhythmic Top 40, branded as "Energy 106.9".
As of 2012, WOMX-FM began sharing most of the rhythmic & pop content with sister Rhythmic contemporary station WJHM.
As of 2012 both WVEE and WPEG are the only CBS Radio Urban properties remaining, as two other Urbans had shifted to Rhythmic: WPGC-FM in Washington, D.C. (which is a larger radio market); and WJHM/Orlando, which switched formats from Urban to rhythmic contemporary in February 2012.