The following year, the station, along with WKAL, was acquired by Howard Green and Donald Simmons, owner of WENY AM-TV and WLEZ in Elmira and WOND and WMGM FM-TV in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

[7] The new owners reverted the station's call letters to WKAL-FM on February 10, 1986,[8] and implemented a soft adult contemporary format.

[9] Target Communications bought WKAL AM-FM from Green and Simmons in 1987;[10] soon after taking over, on February 1, 1988, the call sign was changed to WFRG-FM,[11] and the station returned to country music, this time branded "96 Frog".

[16] The simulcast on AM 1450 continued until May 1999, when that frequency was sold to the Bible Broadcasting Network and became WYFY[17] (it has since reclaimed the WKAL call sign).

Forever sold its stations in the market, including WODZ-FM, to Regent Communications (the forerunner to Townsquare Media) several months later.