 The move was described by general manager Dan Dubonnet in 1992 as a quest to "save" the station, which was gaining little traction as a rocker; it tripled its weekly audience in the two years after the flip and benefited from the increased popularity of country music in the early 1990s.The station's success earned it back-to-back station of the year honors from the Vermont Association of Broadcasters in 1993 and 1994; by 1995, WOKO was back on top of the Burlington radio ratings.Hall became Vermont's first FM duopoly owner with its purchase of WEXP-FM that same year.