the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, and weather reports every 20 minutes. In March 1981, the Katz Agency purchased WFTQ and WAAF from Park City Communications. In 1986 the Katz Agency sold all its radio stations to NewCity Communications. This new company was organized at the time by members of Katz management to purchase all of Katz's radio holdings, under its subsidiary Katz Broadcasting. During the 1980s, WFTQ was known as "Worcester's Weather Station". As early as 1985, WFTQ was broadcasting in stereo using the 40 kHz Kahn system. During the summer of 1989, NewCity Communications, Inc. sold WFTQ and WAAF to Zapis Communications in exchange for Atlanta station WEKS. WFTQ then underwent restructuring. By 1990, WFTQ called itself "The Sports Channel" and was known for broadcasting live Boston Celtics games. WFTQ's notable personalities included: J. Bruce, Mark Laurence, Lorraine LeDuc, Mike Finneigan, Dave Taylor, Steve LeVeille, Don Kelley, Dave Houle, Chuck Perks, Gary Nolan, Bill Robert, Karen Williams, Mike Shaun, Mike Warshaw, Cliff Blake, Dave Windsor, Chuck Nowlin, Donna Halper, Steve D'Agostino, Geraldo Tabio, David Goblaskis, Tom Cuddy, Steven Brown, Paul Stevens, Steve York, David Bernstein, Harry Jacobs, Roger La Plante, Jeff Taylor, Chris Tracy, John Barber, Tim Fontaine, Earl Finkle, Mark Veau, Melanie Moore, and Kevin Mannix, and featured shows such as The 14 Minute Flashback at noon, 6 p.m. and 9 p.m.; Solid Gold Saturday Night with Dick Bartley; and American Top 40 with Casey Kasem. Memorable station events included: The 14Q Sock Hop, The Bed Race For MDA, Chili Challenge, Neighborhood Block Parties. WFTQ had massive lay-offs, however, and began simulcasting WAAF on January 15, 1991. Over the summer of 1991, General Manager John Sutherland cited 18 months of "substantial losses" due to poor advertising sales. Switch to sports On September 3, 1991, WFTQ changed its call letters to WVEI and began simulcasting WEEI, a sports-talk station at that time broadcasting at 590 kHz. Although WEEI supplied the majority of the station's programming, WVEI would break away from the WEEI simulcast for local weekend morning public affairs programming and broadcasts of Holy Cross football and basketball. On October 10, 1994, WVEI changed calls to WWTM and was known as "Worcester's Team". It briefly had a locally based sports format. At the time, station Chief Engineer Eric Fitch wrote, "We have just recently changed our call sign from WVEI to WWTM, effective October 1, 1994. Prior to that