History
Originally signing on in the 1970s, it was WJLY, which played a bizarre array of rock, country, jazz, big band, classical, R&B, and other more obscure music genres. Joe Postove, who in the 80's became a major talk show host at WNIS in nearby Norfolk, was a personality there in the mid-70's. The station went dark around 1978 due to money problems. It signed back on as a Top 40 station in 1980 and was called WQZQ. A few years later, it changed to a country format. In the mid 80s, the station went to an adult contemporary format as WOFM, switching a few years later to AAA as "The Border" and attracting a small "cult" audience in Norfolk. Plagued with a bad signal the station tried getting an upgrade to 25 thousand watts, but was unable to. This caused WOFM in 1990 to flip to heavy metal with the now-defunct "Z Rock" syndicated satellite delivered format as WZTR.
A few years later, the station was sold to Willis Broadcasting who changed the calls to WMYK and instituted a hard-core rap & hip hop format as 92.1 Kiss. Clear Channel later purchased the station and tried "Dance Top 40" which failed in the ratings. Then, Clear Channel did a Jammin Oldies simulcast with sister station WSVY 107.7 as "Vibe 107.7 and 92.1". Later, the station went to urban AC with the same name before returning to the previous rap & hip hop format as WBHH, "92.1 The Beat". On March 1, 2003, the station dropped its hip hop format and started simulcasting an soft A/C format with former smooth jazz sister station WJCD; the two stations together were known as Lite FM.
In August 2005, to fill the hole left when crosstown oldies WFOG switched to adult contemporary, WCDG broke away from the simulcast and became Oldies formatted "Cool 92.1". The first song played was local legend Bill Deal's biggest hit, "What Kind OF Fool Do You Think I Am".
On October 11, 2010, WCDG and WJCD became simulcasts again when WKUS moved from 105.3 to 107.7 and the 105.3 frequency became "Magic 105.3" with a AC-themed Classic Hits format. The move meant the end for WCDG's Oldies format. On March 31, 2011, WKUS broke away from its simulcast of WKSA to become Rhythmic Hot AC WMOV (MOViN' 107.7) after that station received a signal upgrade to cover the area.
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