WQOK

In the 1970s, it changed its call sign to WJLC-FM, airing an automated Top 40 format separate from the co-owned AM station.

Joyner moved the transmitter tower closer to Raleigh, boosting it to 1,020 feet (310 m) in height above average terrain (HAAT).

[7] In 1989, Joyner sold the station to Four Chiefs, Inc., owned by noted African-American broadcast executive Ragan Henry.

WQOK was sold to Radio One (now called Urban One), along with current sister stations 107.1 WFXC, 104.3 WFXK, and 103.9 WNNL.

In 2007, WQOK asked the FCC to move its city of license to Carrboro, put the transmitter on a tower in Durham and decrease from Class C1 to C2.

In January 2016, Parr was replaced by The Rickey Smiley Morning Show, which is syndicated by parent company Urban One.