ratings ladder. The 1,000-watt station garnered a 7.2 share of 12+ all listeners, beating most FM, and every area AM station (including 50,000-watt WWKB) except #1 WBEN. The Radio and Records Directory also listed WECK as #4 in the entire U.S. in Average Quarter Hour listening (AQH) among stations with similar formats. After several years of success airing Ham's format, the ownership decided to create a locally-produced version of the adult standards format. The station used the station's collection of music from previous owner Gordon Brown, yielding a 2,000-plus library of titles. The station continued licensing the "Music of Your Life" name, but it shifted from the more familiar songs of the "Music of Your Life" format to a much larger playlist produced in-house. The station's ratings declined with that strategy, because while the station expanded the playlist to a point where much of it was unfamiliar to the audience. CBS ownership Quid Me Broadcasting sold the station to CBS Radio in 1988. WECK continued with a nostalgia music format, but became satellite automated, maintaining only a live, local show in morning drive. Portions of the station's programming came from the Music of Your Life network, although the station switched to Westwood One's Adult Standards satellite feed for a time. The station was sold to Regent Communications along with the rest of the CBS Buffalo radio cluster in 2006. In February 2006, WECK abruptly dropped the standards format. In an attempt to capitalize on the success of sister station WYRK and "own" country formats in the market, WECK switched to the Jones Radio Network classic country format. From 2005 to 2008, the station aired Buffalo Bisons baseball games, with the Bisons buying air time from the station for their broadcast. Culver Communications era On November 5, 2007, Dick Greene, owner of WLVL in nearby Lockport, New York, announced that he had purchased WECK for $1.3 million through his company, Culver Communications. On March 12, 2008, Greene launched a new talk radio format, mixed with local and syndicated programming. WECK made headlines with the hiring of Buffalo radio veterans Harv Moore and Tom Donahue to host its morning show. However, just six months after the switch, Moore was released and replaced by local actress Loraine O'Donnell, who was subsequently terminated in June 2011. WECK acquired the broadcast radio rights to the University of Buffalo Bulls football and men's basketball games for