Sudbrink relocated WLYF to the WLBW television tower and increased its effective radiated power to 100,000 watts, allowing it to be easily heard in Fort Lauderdale and even picked up in West Palm Beach.

By the late 1980s, the audience for easy listening stations was getting older; in response, WLYF gradually added more soft rock vocals and decreased instrumentals.

During this time, programming vet Rob Sidney replaced Larry Travers, who had supervised the easy listening format.

[10] On December 8, 2014, Entercom announced that it was purchasing Lincoln Financial Group's entire 15-station lineup (including WLYF) in a $106.5 million deal.

It would operate the outlets under a local marketing agreement (LMA) until the sale was approved by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, many AC stations around the U.S. and Canada began following a practice to devote the weeks from mid-November until December 25 to all-Christmas music.

Unlike most markets in the United States and Canada, full-time Christmas music stations have been inconsistent and rare in Miami.

The last station to go all-Christmas was active rocker WHDR (93.1 FM), doing it for one season as it made the transition in 2010 to soft adult contemporary WFEZ.