 Prior to 1978, WJOF featured a mixture of beautiful music and, at night, country music.On June 10, 1980, the call letters were switched to the current WZYP.Through most of the 1980s, WZYP was northern Alabama's top-rated station, dethroned only by WDRM when country experienced a resurge in popularity among young people in the late 1980s and 1990s.