Shortly thereafter, Bomar flipped WEZV to Beautiful Music (Easy Listening), simulcasting of WMRI/Marion (now WXXC) with local break inserts. WEZV would be one of two other Indiana stations "networked" to WMRI's beautiful music format; the other stations were WLEZ in Terre Haute (now WBOW) and WYEZ (now WHPZ) in Bremen (South Bend). During this period, WEZV referred to itself as "The EASY One--WEZV, 95.3 FM." Toward the end of Bomar's ownership of WEZV, the network began to skew away from instrumentals and lean more toward those from smooth jazz artists.