Sagittarius Communications, LLC, took over WHTX and WYCL on October 1, 2012 via a local marketing agreement with a lease-to-purchase option from Whiplash Radio, LLC. After initially dropping Dial Global's "The Lounge" service and all weekend programming, WHTX continued programming adult standards until dropping it for a satellite-programmed rhythmic oldies format on January 1, 2013. Sagittarius' lease-to-purchase option with WHTX and WYCL failed to close, and another local marketing agreement was established in May 2013 by "Group Radio, LLC," headed by former Akron radio personality Tim Phillips, who re-implemented an adult standards format on WHTX. Following a court settlement in late October 2013 between Sagittarius and Whiplash Radio, WHTX and WYCL were returned to Sagittarius. Concurrently, WHTX flipped back to a rhythmic oldies format on November 2, 2013, then switched to talk radio by March 2017.