 After a little over a decade on the air, management saw an opening for a new FM format in Austin.While the AM station would continue to play an older, personality style of country and western music, KASE-FM was designed to appeal to younger country fans.Bill Mayne, KASE Program director at the time, recalled in a 2010 interview, the Friday afternoon in 1981 when KASE "came out of Mantovani and went into the Waylon Jennings song "Are You Ready for the Country" and had every dentist's office, nursing home and doctor's office in the city of Austin calling to complain."