WGTY-FM was an automated Beautiful Music station for many years, a forgotten companion to the full-service WGET 1320. In early 1984, Rick McCauslin, then a sales rep for WGET/WGTY was promoted to General Manager, replacing the long-time GM, Richard Selby. Rick's plan was to investigate the possibility of changing WGTY-FM to a live Country station, as the York/Adams County area only really had one Country station serving it, Z-107, broadcasting out of the Harrisburg area. Rick hired Wally Daniels as the PD for both stations, tasking him with building the Country station. Wally was doing 6PM - Midnight on the WGET side for a time before being moved to the FM side. Rick & Wally began building the new WGTY airstaff and when finished, it was: