During those early years, the station formatted country music, beautiful music, middle-of-the-road music, Top 40 and an Adult Contemporary format.
If pop is defined as middle-of-the-road music designed to appeal to the broadest spectrum possible, being generic still didn't necessarily sell.
It began as a religious FM station, later switching to middle-of-the-road music using the call letters KFIG.
By the time of this transition period, WBEN radio's demographics had grown older with its folksy personalities and middle-of-the-road music.
The warrior turned on the radio, picking up a station that was playing middle-of-the-road music.
The station was founded in the 1948 as WJMJ, which broadcast middle-of-the-road music and religious programming.
WKNX continued its format of middle-of-the-road music under the moniker "Memories 1250".
Do you like middle-of-the-road music like The Teacher?
At that time (1960s), the station offered a mix of middle-of-the-road music and local interest programming.
Metromedia would buy the station by the early 1970s and flipped the format to a full service station playing middle-of-the-road popular music.