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I was thinking of putting in a new section, but wanted feedback before I just threw it in there. Here it is:

[edit] Stunt's

On September 12, 2006 at 7:00 am, WIHT changed it's entire format to consist of only Justin Timberlake song's. The station went by the name "Justin 99.5" instead of the usual "Hot 99.5". The website was even changed to coincide with this the theme. You could access Hot995.com through the domain Justin995.com, and while keeping it's original layout, the entire site was altered in some way to continue the Justin theme.

In the day's leading up to the stunt, WIHT ran ads from it general manager Jeff Kapugi implying that recent change's to the station would be restored, using the term "...we bring them back.", as if to say that recently terminated personality's would once again work for the station. On September 12th we learn the spot's were a tease, and that "...we bring them back." is a take from the Timberlake song SexyBack.

WIHT switched back to it's CHR format at 12:00am on September 13, 2006.

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[edit] Classical Music Format?

No. The WGAY/WQMR FM/AM pair of the 1960s and 1970s was never strictly speaking running a classical music format. Yes, it played some light classical pieces like the Ritual Fire Dance by Manuel de Falla. But mostly it played Frank Chacksfield, Percy Faith, Mantovani, The Gunter Kallmann Chorus, Norrie Paramor, Acker Bilk, Angela Morley, Warren Barker, The Living Strings, Frank Sinatra, Nelson Riddle, and so on and so forth. At the time it was called "Beautiful Music." Detractors call it elevator music, a term which equates what they were doing at the pair with Muzak, which was considerably different . —Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.156.231.164 (talk) 08:21, 20 February 2008 (UTC)