The AM flipped to Oldies, first as 13Z and later WLLZ (Solid Gold Wheelz) in the early 80s.
Willie Davis bought it in the late 80s and changed the format to Urban and the calls to WMVP. It was to replace 1590 WAWA. They ended up running a bulldozer over the WAWA tower site and smashing all of the equipment intact into the ground because it had PCB and they didn't want to dispose of it.
They got the current setup, plus 24 hours in 1980 or so. The studio for WLLZ was at the transmitter site. Pretty dangerous. Bunch of phasor equipment on the wall. Anybody touched it, they'd get zapped.
WMCS didn't make much money in it's final years, so they flipped it to Standards first, then Rhythmic Oldies, then Oldies as it is now. Both translators have bad coverage. They focus on mom and pop businesses for advertising. Offer them affordable rates.
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