by the late 1960s, the fm audience was changing, and the troy record had a difficult time funding the station. in 1970, the station switched to a top 40/oldies format with live djs. at that point, they were known as "the big 92". djs on "the big 92" included craig stevens, gary mitchell, rex gregory, dale lane, bob harris, bob roberts, johnny lance and chris calvert. though the station (the first commercial fm rock station in the albany market) did very well with the new format, protests over the format flip among classical music listeners were intense and a partial victory was claimed in late 1971, when the troy record sold wfly to functional broadcasting. the programming was changed to an easy listening/classical hybrid. the partial return of classical was not successful, given the sign-on of wmht-fm as a full-time classical station. by this time, there were already two other easy listening outlets in the albany-schenectady-troy market.