On September 8, 2001, at 6 a.m., after playing "It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday" by Boyz II Men, WQSR and its oldies format moved over from 105.7 to 102.7. (WQSR programming was simulcast on both 102.7 and 105.7 to direct listeners to the new frequency.) Two days later, the WXYV call sign moved to 105.7 and changed back to an urban contemporary format branding as "X105.7", positioning itself against WERQ once again. The call sign swap between the two stations took place 4 days later. In addition, WQSR acquired the rights to Baltimore Ravens games from sister station WLIF, and retained those rights until 2006, when WBAL and WIYY took over. Musically, WQSR's playlist also changed a little, cutting back the pre-1964 songs and some 1980s music was introduced. By 2003, the station was playing strictly songs from 1964 to 1979 with a handful of pre-1964 and post-1979 titles.