WNED purchased WBFO in July 2011 and incorporated some of the channel's news features and staff into a combined lineup on March 1, 2012, through November 30, 2012 (when the sale of WNED to Crawford Broadcasting was finalized and the call letters changed to WDCZ) which it broadcast on both stations. All of the network music programming WBFO had carried on weekends was dropped. Most of the spoken word programming lost in the merger formerly aired on WNED (although much of that was restored after "Talk of the Nation", previously a WBFO exclusive, ended its run, and additional slots were opened when "Car Talk" was dropped in 2017). Among the programs eliminated from the old WBFO were the last jazz programs originating from a Buffalo area radio station at that time; jazz would eventually return as part of the broad-based standards format on the revived WEBR in 2020.