This continued until the early morning of January 4, 1993 (the first Monday after the holiday week), when the station finally finished changing formats and became "99-5 WOW-FM" WOWF (the call letters had actually been in place since October 1992), a news/talk station with broadcasters such as Art Vuolo and Ed Tyll coming to the station. However, by popular demand, the "goofy loops" track was brought back at weekends for the life of the station. WOWF promoted its news/talk format as an alternative to WWJ and WJR by touting the station's FM signal as clear and static-free, including using the Steely Dan song "FM (No Static at All)" in their promos. Station brass described the format in radio trade papers as "hip full service," combining approaches of CNN and MTV/VH1, and avoided the label "news/talk" as it was thought that such a label branded the station as being "old" and "stodgy." However, the station could never make any significant inroads, and in less than five months' time, the news/talk format was abandoned for a new one. A few months later, on May 28, 1993, at 3 p.m., the station abruptly dropped the talk format in favor of "Young Country", with the first song being "Small Town Saturday Night" by Hal Ketchum, and adopted the current WYCD call letters. Part of the branding for this format included the logo for Young Country with red and blue lettering and blue background and a star in the middle of the word "Young". Don Carpenter was one of the few airstaff (afternoons) that remained from the "Wow FM" format. Other personalities included in the original lineup were Jim "JD" Daniels and Katie Marroso (mornings), Mark Elliot (middays), Jyl Forsyth (nights) Dave Fuller (overnights) and Eddie Haskell (weekends). WYCD positioned itself as a younger-leaning alternative to crosstown W4 Country, which had been enjoying massive ratings as the only country station in town, and the 99.5 and 106.7 frequencies, former rock and roll rivals during 99.5's days as WABX, now found themselves warring in the country format. The format kept its talk element and combined it with younger sounding country music and created "Morning Shows" all day that highlighted listener calls, tons of requests and fun jock talk.