WPLJ 95.5fm - New York : 1975-1982

At the start of 1968, ABC split its radio network into four distinct components, one of which was dedicated to FM radio. The following year, WABC-FM and its sister stations—KABC-FM in Los Angeles; WLS-FM in Chicago; KGO-FM in San Francisco; WXYZ-FM in Detroit; KQV-FM in Pittsburgh; and newly acquired KXYZ-FM in Houston—began carrying an automated, youth-oriented, progressive rock format known as Love.

In late 1970 ABC dropped Love and installed completely live-and-local, freeform rock formats. The network also applied for call letter changes for the seven stations. On February 13, at midnight, the station's call letters changed to WPLJ chosen after Allen Shaw noticed the letter combination as the name of a song on the 1970 Mothers of Invention record, Burnt Weeny Sandwich. The song, "W-P-L-J", was originally performed by the Four Deuces in 1955, and stood for "White Port and Lemon Juice". 1971, WPLJ pioneered the very first album-oriented rock (AOR) format, playing only the best cuts from the best-selling rock albums with a minimum of disc jockey talk.  1983, the station began a transition from AOR to contemporary hit radio. WPLJ provided pinback buttons to attendees of several concerts in the New York-New Jersey area. A practice they continued while sponsoring the Dr Pepper Music Festival