 Golden Eagle would continue to program the Top 40 format, although adding in some elements of Adult Contemporary music, as AM radio music listening was beginning to wane in the early 1980s.During this period, they would install a Magnavox AM Stereo exciter into the MW-1A in 1983, giving 1490 its first stereo broadcast during its lifetime.This would later be switched to the Motorola C-QUAM unit by 1988.