In the spring of 1995, Broadcast Partners opted to sell the station to Evergreen Media, and after a lot of speculation about the station's future, Evergreen confirmed in January 1996 that the station would be changing formats. On the final weekend that the station would play country music (which would be from February 2 to February 4, 1996), the entire air staff said goodbye. WYNY ended local programming at 6 p.m. on February 4 with "The Dance" by Garth Brooks, followed by syndicated programming. After airing the syndicated "After Midnite with Blair Garner" show in the early morning hours of February 5 (which also ended with "The Dance"), the country music format was gone from the station, thus leaving the entire New York City area without a full-time Country station. (Later that year, country would resurface on several suburban stations, one of which would get the WYNY calls, resurfacing in late 1998.) Beginning at 5:30 a.m. on February 5, WYNY began stunting by simulcasting sister stations across the country, the first being Rock-formatted WRCX Chicago. On February 6, at 6 a.m., the simulcasting switched to Mainstream Urban-formatted KKBT Los Angeles. On February 7, at 6 a.m., the simulcasting switched to Talk-formatted WLUP-FM Chicago. On February 8, at 6 a.m., the simulcasting switched to AC-formatted KIOI San Francisco. On February 9, from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., the simulcast switched to Alternative-leaning Top 40 WXKS-FM Boston. At 6 p.m., the simulcasting of sister stations ended.