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In addition to hourly news reports and quickie features (such as Would You Believe?), VOCM airs shows like Open Line and Nite Line (both live phone-in shows), and the Saturday Night Cabin Party, which is completely devoted to classic country music from the 1950s right up to the 1980s. (The Cabin Party used to air on the former KIXX Country -- see below.)
VOCM (broadcast on AM 590 in St. John's) is a part of the Steele Communications network. Its sister stations include K-Rock 97.5 FM (previously known as Magic 97), Radio Newfoundland 930 AM (previously known as Q-93, which played oldies), and Hits 99.1 FM (previously known as KIXX Country). Steele Communications also has radio stations in several other provinces in Canada.
VOCM's two stations are among just four broadcast radio stations in Canada whose call letters do not begin with C. The other two, VOAR and VOWR , also broadcast in St. John's. All three stations first aired before Newfoundland joined Canadian Confederation in 1949. The ITU prefix VO was originally assigned to Newfoundland and remains in use by radioamateurs.
Individual stations in the VOCM group now serving other Newfoundland communities have Canadian callsigns.
VOAR (Voice of Adventist Radio) and VOWR (Voice of Wesley [United/Methodist Church] Radio) are both religious AM broadcasters which have been in operation since the 1920s, well before the creation of the Newfoundland VO prefix in 1927. One of the motives behind the early adoption of radio by various religious groups in the Dominion of Newfoundland was the ability to broadcast prayers to the crews of ships at sea.