 The station's ratings peak came in the spring of 1980, with WCZY registering a fourth-place showing in the overall 12+ ratings and consistently ranking the highest of Detroit's three beautiful music stations (its competitors at the time were WJR-FM and WWJ-FM, as WNIC and WOMC had evolved into adult contemporary formats by then).During this time WCZY used the services of syndicators Churchill and Schulke (the latter's Schulke II package) for its beautiful music format, but unlike its competitors WJR-FM and WWJ-FM, the station was not fully automated and made use of live announcers.In 1978, former country station WDEE-AM (1500) was acquired and its call letters changed to WCZY-AM with a similar format.