Hearings for both WJMO and WYLT's licences were conducted by administrative law judge John H. Conlin on June 16, 1976. His 50-page ruling issued on February 17, 1977 recommended to the FCC that both station licenses should not be renewed. WJMO and WLYT were admonished for multiple violations of FCC rules, policies and the Communications Act to the point "...in combination, they establish a monumental record of licensee indifference to a variety of agency regulations and procedures." Conlin also stated this pattern of rule violations was similar to patterns uncovered by WOOK and WFAB in their respective hearings, both stations summarily had their license renewals denied by the FCC; incidentally, WFAB signed off permanently three days after this ruling, while WOOK (under the WFAN callsign) would cease operations one year later and be replaced with WYCB, a new license owned by a group that contested United's license for WOOK. Conlin concluded with regards to WJMO and WLYT, "the same result is plainly called for here."