[5] The station originally played classical and jazz music at various times of the day.

In 1965, the station was sold to a Christian local group called Maranatha Broadcasting.

In the 1970s, WFMZ began cutting back the religious programming to very early mornings and middays and late evenings, replacing it with more easy listening music.

By the mid-1970s, the station added some soft vocals by standard and adult contemporary artists; they began playing one or two per hour.

(A previous owner of the radio station operated an earlier WFMZ-TV on channel 67 in the 1950s.)

In the 1980s, WFMZ continued with the beautiful music format cutting the religious shows down to a couple hours a day at most.

Citadel Broadcasting, owner of WLEV (96.1 FM), bought the station late that year.

The WLEV staffers who did not stay on WCTO moved to fill daytime hours on 100.7.

In 1973, 96.1 became WLEV and began offering an automated soft rock/adult contemporary format that played the softer rock hits of the 1960s and 1970s along with current product.

WLEV competes today with WBEB and WODE-FM as adult listening radio stations.

[7] The minimum distance between two Class B stations operating on the same channel according to current FCC rules is 150 miles.