WPLY (AM)

[6] During the "Golden Age of Radio," the station carried programs from the NBC Blue Network, dramas, comedies, news, sports, soap operas, game shows and big band broadcasts.

As network programming moved from radio to television, 610 WSLS switched to a full service, Country music format.

As the stations could no longer share a call sign after the purchase, the AM became WSLC at midnight on August 1, 1972, keeping its country sound.

The FM switched to album-oriented rock and briefly became WSLC-FM before settling on current call sign WSLQ.

610 WSLC was flipped to new call letters as WVBE, simulcasting co-owned 100.1 WVBE-FM Lynchburg, and brought urban adult contemporary and R&B music full-time to Roanoke.