[5] After several months, the partnership was dissolved, with Williams becoming the sole owner of WGAT and Perkins taking full control of WNOC.
[14] After a $1.5 million sale to Vanguard Communications in 1987[15] fell through, WTLB and FM sister station WRCK were sold to Joel Hailstone and Barry Dickstein's H&D Broadcast Group for $1.75 million in 1988;[16] by this point, WTLB was a talk and adult contemporary station.
[15] In November 1991, the station began simulcasting on WFRG (1450 AM) in Rome, renamed WZLB,[17] under a local marketing agreement (LMA);[18] the stations initially shared an adult standards format from Unistar, replacing oldies on WTLB,[17] but by February 1992 they were carrying Satellite Music Network's Kool Gold oldies programming.
Before their transfer of ownership to Galaxy, WRNY and WIXT in Little Falls (which, from its sign-on in 1952 to 2005, was known by the call sign WLFH) operated as part of a four station network of sports talk radio stations identified as "The Sports Stars", along with WADR in Remsen and WUTQ in Utica.
WADR and WUTQ, the two weakest stations in the network, were sold to Ken Roser and became full service outlets, while Galaxy Communications acquired WRNY and WIXT, which retained their sports format.
Galaxy then paired the stations with WTLB, which ended its adult standards format to simulcast with WRNY and WIXT.
In 2010, Galaxy reached an affiliation deal with ESPN Radio, in which their Utica and Syracuse AM stations would join the network.