(R. Lee Hagan, president) for a reported combined sale price of $1.5 million. The deal was approved by the FCC on April 13, 1999, and the transaction was consummated on May 10, 1999. In November 2003, Gulf Coast Broadcasting Company, Inc. (R. Lee Hagan, president) made a deal to sell this station and AM sister station WIJK to Star Broadcasting, Inc. (Ronald E. Hale, Jr., president) for a reported combined sale price of $2.75 million. The deal was approved by the FCC on April 13, 2004, and the transaction was consummated on April 18, 2005. This would prove short-lived as less than a month later, in May 2005, Star Broadcasting, Inc., applied to trade this station to Cumulus Media holding company Cumulus Licensing LLC in exchange for WNCV (100.3 FM, now WTKE-FM) in Niceville, Florida. The deal was approved by the FCC on March 23, 2006, and the transaction was consummated on August 2, 2006. Move to Florida In June 2005, the station applied for a construction permit to change its community of license to Shalimar, Florida, just over 80 miles south-southeast of Evergreen, Alabama. The permit, which would also see the station downgraded to class C2 and an effective radiated power of just 50,000 watts, was granted on June 20, 2006. The station applied for and received new call letters WRKN on July 18, 2006, then less than two week later applied for and received the current WNCV call letters on August 1, 2006. The FCC accepted the station's filing for a license to cover for this new location and power on August 3, 2006, and the station has been operating from Shalimar under the construction permit since this date. Controversy The station made national headlines in November 1992 when the Supreme Court of Alabama ruled in Howard v. Wolff Broadcasting Corp. that Alabama state law permits employers to fire people solely because of their gender. Patricia Williams Howard sued after she was fired from her job as disc jockey and advertising salesperson at WEGN-FM, then owned by Wolff Broadcasting Corp., on January 26, 1988. The station manager told Howard she was being let go at the insistence of the station owner's wife, Karen Wolff, as she "did not want any females on the air". The unanimous ruling stated that only the Alabama Legislature could pass a law prohibiting such firings, in light of Alabama's at-will employment laws. References