 Immediately prior to that, it was playing "beautiful music" under its previous WLQA callsign.To ease the transition to Warm 98, the station said it would play the same songs as it did before, only now they would be performed by the original artists instead of by "beautiful music" performers.While the "soft rock" format of stations such as "Warm 98" is now very common, it can be said that "Warm 98" was not just one of the first "soft rock" stations in the country, but among the few stations of the genre that has kept this format under the same callsign and identifier for the longest period of time.