In 1967, the Duke family started WDBM-FM at 96.9 FM, now known as WKKT, which initially was simulcast with WDBM.
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By 1998 the WIST call letters were back to Statesville, with the Real Country format on the station, and the station became WAME again in October 2000.
In early 1980, Swaggart denounced Contemporary Christian Music through his publication The Evangelist, and WAME began gradually moving toward a mixture of conservative Christian music and teaching programs.
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In 1990, WAME was sold to a subsidiary of Pat Robertson's Christian Broadcasting Network, which changed the call letters to WCNT and began their own in-house syndicated talk network which included Harley David, Cliff Kincaid and Bob Kwessel.