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The station was assigned the call letters WFAN on November 3, 1981,[3] playing a full service mix of news, sports and adult contemporary music.

The call letters changed again August 17, 1987, to WVVE, starting as a gold based AC and then moving to a full oldies format known as 102.3 The Wave The station kept the call letters WVVE until December 29, 1999, when Citadel Broadcasting purchased the station and flipped formats to hard rock as ROCK 102.

[5] ROCK 102 flipped to a classic hits format under the moniker XL 102 and the WUXL call letters in February 2002.

[7] In March 2003, a few weeks after the fire XL 102 flipped formats to adult contemporary music and changed its calls to WXLM.

As AC formatted MIX 102, WXLM competed against long-time ratings leader Soft Rock 106.5, WBMW.