By August 2012, CIQM-FM flipped to top 40, leaving CFHK as the only hot AC station again in London.
As of January 9, 2012, Desjardins left CHOM for CJAD's The Aaron Rand Show with Aaron Rand as a sports reporter.
Like Winnipeg sister CITI-FM in 2012, CHEZ 106 adopted the World Class Rock slogan, but still remains classic rock.
By June 2012, the station dropped the entire 1980s library and most pre-2000 music from its playlist, making it one of the few AC stations to not follow the adult contemporary pattern.
However, on May 21, 2012 at 12 Midnight, Leclerc dropped the Rythme FM branding and adult contemporary programming from CJEC-FM, and began to identify itself as Le 91,9 FM Québec, playing a selection of hot adult contemporary music without use of personalities—the station was relaunched as WKND 91.9 (pronounced on-air as Weekend Radio 91.9) on June 20, 2012 at 6PM.
On December 1, 2011, the station flipped to an all Christmas format for the holiday season, with announced plans to switch to adult contemporary after January 1, 2012.
By June 2012, the station dropped the entire 1980s library and most of pre-2000 music from its playlist, making it one of the few AC stations to not follow the adult contemporary pattern.
By January 2012, regarding CHOZ-FM's format shift back to hot adult contemporary, the station returned to their contemporary hit radio format as it has been always a reporter to the Canadian top 40 panel.
KSTT-FM airs an adult top 40 music format branded as Coast 101.3, and prior to 2012, aired an adult contemporary format.
The station was assigned the KWJZ-LP call letters by the Federal Communications Commission on December 12, 2012.
By June 15, 2012, Mitsou left the morning show of the station after 12 years.
By 2012, most of the classic hits & ballads returned due to the 35th anniversary of flagship CITE-FM Montreal, going towards its old RockDétente direction.
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From May 2011-March 2012, the stations started identifying their call letters during station identification, and from April 27–29, 2012, the network was briefly called Rose FM as a result of breast cancer research.
As of February 2012, the station has not been listed on the Mediabase urban AC add board yet, a similar fate happens with sister adult contemporary station WSB-FM.
By 2012, WBBM-FM was moved to the Mediabase contemporary hit radio panel; however, it continued to report to the Nielsen BDS rhythmic contemporary panel until November 2012 when BDS moved the station back to the Mainstream Top 40 panel.
As of March 2012, WEZF switched to hot adult contemporary per Mediabase reports, making WEZF have the station's second run in the hot AC format.
The top 40 format remained absent in the Fort Wayne area until WJFX flipped to top 40 in 2012.
They were an urban contemporary until the 2000s, when they changed their direction to rhythmic contemporary and finally to contemporary hit radio in 2012 as the station was moved to the Mediabase contemporary hit radio panel.
By 2012, WKJY became the sole AC in Long Island following rival WALK-FM's shift to adult top 40.
WNIC reverted to their former AC format in September 2012.
When Clear Channel had another round of lay-offs through their stations in Fall 2012, the station's Programming Director was let go, therefore the station morphed back into a Mainstream AC under a new PD in which it had the station emphasis less on softer 70s, 80s, and 90s music by Spring 2013.
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By March 2012, the station was placed on the Mediabase add board.
As of 2012, WOMX-FM began sharing most of the rhythmic & pop content with sister Rhythmic contemporary station WJHM.
Mediabase & Arbitron now report WQBK-FM/WQBJ as an active rock station, replacing WZMR; while Nielsen BDS reports the station on the mainstream rock panel as of 2012, meaning active rock was pretty much replaced by mainstream rock on this station.
By 2012, WSHH became Pittsburgh's last remaining AC, making it the first time in a long time Pittsburgh went down to only one AC station after its rimshot rival WLER-FM flipped to active rock.
By March 2012, Philadelphia stopped having WISX as the market's only hot adult contemporary, and WSTW flipped to hot adult contemporary when Mediabase made a panel shift on WSTW from top 40 to hot AC.
As of 2012 both WVEE and WPEG are the only CBS Radio Urban properties remaining, as two other Urbans had shifted to Rhythmic: WPGC-FM in Washington, D.C. (which is a larger radio market); and WJHM/Orlando, which switched formats from Urban to rhythmic contemporary in February 2012.
WWCN airs a sports talk format branded as "99.3 FM ESPN"; until 2012, it was an alternative rock radio station, although the active rock flip was confirmed following the flip of sister station WRXK-FM to talk radio.
On April 18, 2012, after playing "Best of My Love" by The Emotions, and before going into "Unbelievable" by EMF, WJGH changed its format to adult hits, going under the Jack FM brand.
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