 With the launch of WRPI FM on November 1, 1957, and most of the school's programming on the AM band being transmitted via carrier-current WRPI AM 640 by that time, WHAZ's future became expendable, only being operated on a rather minimal basis...and programming Classical music.The station was eventually sold in 1967 to new owners who decided to program the station with a Christian religious format, which holds to this day.In 1973, WHAZ nearly added an FM variant of its programming on 107.7 MHz, however the death of the station's then-owner led to those plans being scrapped by his children in favor of country music with the station becoming WGNA, now the regular #1 station in the market.