 As KMCS, the station was live instead of automated.By this time, Nellie Babbs had moved to Missouri and was no longer involved in the radio station's operations.In April 1985, the FCC unanimously found that, despite the "reprehensible" 264 hours of Gale and Wickstrom broadcasts aired over KTTL, hate speech was protected and could not be used as a factor in denying the station a license.