Clear Channel opted not to return the license while it sought a new transmitter site. The callsign WLVE (long associated with what is now WMIA-FM Miami) was "parked" on the license beginning in April 2009, in order not to lose control of the sign to another station operator. Low-powered transmissions resumed for a few days each November – by way of a wire strung up at WUSQ-FM's site – as the Telecommunications Act mandates automatic deletion of a station that is continuously silent for one year. WLVE was later one of several moribund AM stations that made up a planned 2009 donation to the Washington, D.C. nonprofit Minority Media and Telecommunications Council; however, for unclear reasons, it is absent from later reports on the plan and never changed hands.