much in the same manner as in years past when network programming gave way at sunset to r&b music for a different audience, for many years after wlac changed to news and talk, the station abruptly switched, at 8 p.m. central time (when the clear-channel signal settled into place) to an all-religion format. the nighttime line-up included paid broadcasts of many evangelical, fundamentalist, and pentecostal preachers, seeking donations for their ministries, with the news/talk format resuming at daybreak (after the hoss allen show). this practice was discontinued shortly after the station's purchase by clear channel communications (now iheartmedia).