United Broadcasting sold WJMO and WJMO-FM on October 1992 to Zebra Communications for a reported $4.445 million. Zebra was a partnership between WZAK owner Zapis Communications, WZAK program director Lynn Tolliver, and WZAK music director Bobby "Otis" Rush; both Tolliver and Rush were long-time radio personalities in the market, and both had previously worked at WJMO. Although Tolliver and Rush were both African-Americans, they only had 23 percent of the company's equity, and 57 percent of the company's voting stock. Zapis held the remainder of equity and voting stock and was considered the key party in the new ownership, a joint sales agreement was also filed between the stations and WZAK allowing shared management and operations. Both the Cleveland chapters for the NAACP and the SCLC, along with five different community groups, contested the sale. The SCLC filed a petition against Zapis Communications on December 1992, alleging that Zapis committed fraud by using WZAK employees to get the stations at a cheaper price while Zapis effectively would be controlling all operations.