Capstar Broadcasting purchased WXPS in 1998. On December 14, the sports talk format, which by then also incorporated some hot talk programs, was abandoned in favor of country music as "Kix 96.7"; around the same time, WXPS moved its city of license and transmitter to Willsboro. This move improved the station's Burlington signal, and the plans for the 97.3 translator were abandoned and the construction permit canceled two months earlier. The following April, WEAV left the simulcast and implemented a separate talk format. A year later, WXPS itself changed formats again, this time to smooth jazz.