 announced that WEW-FM would be shut down, "because FM broadcasting has not been accepted by the general public".A few years later the University exited broadcasting altogether—with the limited exception of a student-run carrier current station, "KBIL"—when it sold WEW to a company headed by Aubrey D. Reid, a news director at KXOK (630 AM) who went by the professional name of Bruce Barrington.Following the sale of the station, in June 1955 WEW's format was changed from an educational one that featured classical music to a commercial operation broadcasting country and western music.