stations were sold off in order to comply with recently enacted FCC regulations regarding newspaper cross-ownership in the same market. Though the AM station was no longer co-owned with the TV station, WJAC, Inc. allowed Winston Radio to continue using the WJAC call letters for the duration of its ownership. This privilege expired upon Altoona's Forever Broadcasting's acquisition of WJAC in 1997. The station then went through a series of new call signs, starting with WODZ in 1999, WSPO in 2001, and WLYE in 2002. In 2004 Forever Broadcasting moved the calls and format of WNTJ to 850, where it had been operating as a simulcast of the news–talk programming on WNTW in Somerset, Pennsylvania. It has since moved back to 1490 kHz with Forever's divestiture of the 850 signal and subsequent LMA of the 1490 signal. The Birach Broadcasting Corp. now airs a simulcast of talk station WYUP in Loretto. Forever Communications announced an agreement to sell WNTJ to Birach Broadcasting Corporation of Southfield, Michigan, with the transfer of ownership finalized by the end of 2007. The high cost of maintaining the station's directional array was cited as a factor leading to the sale. According to the FCC filing, the proposed sales price for the station was $230,000. Birach had acquired both WNTJ and WCND in Shelbyville, Kentucky, in the transaction, but no studio or office building was acquired for WNTJ. Birach instead opted to simulcast talk station WWGE in Loretto, Pennsylvania, via an agreement with WWGE's owner, Pennsylvania Radiowerks. WWGE also went off-air during July 2012. Following the sale, the station's call became WKGE in 2008. After being off-air since July 2012, during October 2012 WKGE was listed as silent in the FCC database. Birach Broadcasting filed July 24, 2014 for Special Temporary Authority (STA), requesting to keep the station silent for a maximum period of 180 days from the date of filing. The FCC granted this petition on September 11, 2014. As in previous filings, ownership cited main transmitter problems as the reason to keep the station silent, and had only intended a 90-day silence period, but as that window had come and gone, it would likely remain silent for the duration of the STA. In a subsequent application, filed March 3, 2015, Birach requested an additional stay-silent authorization of 90 days while efforts continued to secure a new transmitter, as the current one was constantly failing.