After receiving a second short-term renewal in 1965, the Federal Communications Commission designated WIFE's licenses for hearing in 1966 over two contests conducted over the station in late 1964.
[9] Eventually, WIFE-FM became an automated beautiful music station;[10] in 1967, it was noted as playing "the best of Broadway and show tunes", airing just eight commercials per hour with a policy of no hard jingles.
[11] Revelations that the Indianapolis and Portland, Oregon-area Star Stations operations had been involved in favorable treatment to candidates for United States Senate, including Vance Hartke in Indiana, led to a five-year revocation hearing that spanned the early 1970s.
Burden filed two court appeals, which failed; the FCC also denied a last-minute application by Indianapolis Broadcasting, which had taken over WIFE AM on June 1, 1976, to operate WIFE-FM on an interim basis.
In the spring of 1976, WIFE-FM changed formats from beautiful music to country[12] rebranded as "CB-108", and Burden requested—but never received—the call letters WXCB, which prompted opposition from WXTZ (103.3 FM).