 In 1994, WIBM (AM) was purchased by Cascades Broadcasting, then owners of WKHM-AM/FM, which changed its calls to WCXI and returned to a country format; the WIBM calls returned once again the following year.In 1997 the station picked up the soft AC/easy listening format from sister WKHM-FM after the FM changed to an adult CHR format as "K105.3".WIBM was known as "Easy Relaxed 1450 AM" until adopting an ESPN Radio sports format in March 1999.