Curly Howard of WKBX told Stockton he should do country on FM, and Summit Communications president Lee Wallenhaupt and executive vice president Richard Barron supported letting Stockton take the FM station in a new direction.
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The station at first was owned by a subsidiary of Piedmont Publishing (publishers of the Winston-Salem Journal and Twin City Sentinel, along with WSJS radio – 600 AM, and 104.1 FM, now WTQR) and Hollywood star Mary Pickford and her husband Charles "Buddy" Rogers.