 WING alumnus Gene "By Golly" Barry also worked at WDAO as program director in the late 1970s in addition to hosting a weekend oldies program on WAVI in the early 1980s.WDAO-FM was the most popular of Crowl's stations, the other being "people power" WAVI with a talk format sometimes mixed with adult standards and a simulcast of WDAO-FM's Sunday evening jazz program.Sunday morning Gospel was hosted by Stanley Henry of Springfield and Sunday evening had a program called "Backpage", hosted by Raymond Graham and Ro-Nita Hawes (the latter would later go on to launch WROU in 1991, and would own that station until she sold it to Radio One in 2004).