The station suffered a humorous accident in 1975 when a field mouse crawled into the transmitter site, shorting out a transformer and keeping the station off the air for 45 minutes during its broadcast of a high school basketball game.
Upon becoming WQWQ, the station flipped to soft adult contemporary, and after trying hot AC that fall, moved back to soft AC in early 1991 in order to ensure an FM station did not fill the format void.
[5] WLC was owned by Bishop Nathaniel Wells and flipped WQWQ back to a religious format, with gospel music and church services.
[6] In 1998, as part of a bankruptcy settlement, WLC donated its WKBZ at 850 kHz to Grand Valley State University, which became WGVS.
[7] The WKBZ intellectual unit, news/talk programming[6] and call letters were retained by the seller and moved to 1520 kHz.