Nearly 19 years of rock came to an end with "Funeral for a Friend" by Elton John, "Born to Run" by Bruce Springsteen, and then the second half of the "Abbey Road" medley by The Beatles with "Golden Slumbers", "Carry That Weight" and then ending with (appropriately) "The End". The fired KMET jocks were given the chance to give a full goodbye to listeners via on-air tributes from their former rivals KLOS and KLSX. They then were split between those two and KSCA, which would be launched by Gene Autry's Golden West Broadcasters that fall. KSCA and future eclectic rock station KSWD (which notably had multiple on-air tributes to KMET during its run) would both pay tribute to KMET's closing by themselves closing with "Abbey Road" with the former repeating KMET's closing (and signing off after playing the hidden finale "Her Majesty") and the latter playing all of Side 2 from "Here Comes the Sun" through "The End". Speculation for KMET's new format was between a first of its kind new age/smooth jazz/soft rock hybrid format, or a dance-rock format positioned between KIIS-FM, KPWR, and KROQ. In the end, on February 14, 1987 at noon, the station indeed flipped to the former, a format that eventually came to be called "new adult contemporary" (NAC) or simply "smooth jazz" with the branding "94.7 The Wave" and new call letters KTWV. The first song on The Wave was the fittingly titled "If You Love Somebody Set Them Free" by Sting, followed by the first instrumental, "Maputo" by Bob James and David Sanborn. In its initial 19 months, management referred to The Wave as a "mood service" rather than a radio station; the only live voices heard were those of personalities from Financial News Network doing news and traffic updates. In lieu of disc jockeys, listeners were encouraged to call a "Wave Line" to learn what the music being played was and the music was wrapped around pre-recorded vignettes called "Playlets" featuring "ordinary people" in unique situations (one of whom was voiced by Terry McGovern, coincidentally the former morning man on KSAN from 1974 to 1979) that noted the time as part of the dialogue. The launch of "The Wave" prompted stations across North America to adopt the NAC format.