dissolved, with Heshler resigning her partnership in the stations by 1994, with Kelly acquiring the assets of WCVI, though Heshler stayed on as general manager for a year or two after its dissolution. Unfortunately, both stations fell on hard times throughout the 1990s, reducing the staffs of both stations to a skeleton crew, and WPQR being silent for almost a year due to a broken transmitter component and no money to fix it, further complicated by a dispute with the landlord who owned the property where WPQR's tower stood. The remaining staff, however, remained loyal to the station and stayed on, some even working for free as volunteers. WCVI missed the deadline to submit a renewal application to the FCC in early 1999, causing the license to temporarily be deleted (FCC records list the station as DWCVI from May 6 to August 9, 1999) and wound up operating under temporary authorization pending an appeal. Eventually this began to take its toll; by early 2000, WCVI only had two paid employees by early 2000, the station manager (who doubled as a full-time supply sergeant at Connellsville's National Guard armory) and a part-timer who served as the station manager, disc jockey, secretary and ad saleswoman. The ABC affiliation lapsed and WCVI took Al Ham's Music Of Your Life format full-time outside of the morning and midday shows. The station's previous studios on the second and third floors at 133 East Crawford Avenue were vacated for a small storefront on the first floor that eventually had the heat turned off; evidence began to mount of the deteriorating condition of both the station and the building that housed it. Creditors forced WCVI and WPQR into receivership in August 2000 after they reportedly racked up more than $1.5 million in debts; both stations were finally sold in a bankruptcy bid sale that November for $475,000 to Keymarket Communications. Bankruptcy sale WCVI also went silent in June 2001 after it and WPQR were acquired for $475,000 by Keymarket Communications of Carnegie in a January bankruptcy court sale, to satisfy more than a million dollars in debt incurred by Mar Com and Kel Com. After undergoing an extensive technical overhaul, WPQR finally returned to the air under the new call letters WPKL (99.3 The Pickle) and an oldies format. WCVI also returned to the air under the call letters WPNT, but only as a simulcast of its