 WEAV returned to the air in February 1997; after briefly relaying the talk format from WZBZ (1070 AM; now WPLB), the station was leased to WXPS (96.7 FM) that July to serve as a relay, first with sports talk, and later with country.Because of WEAV's patterns, the station's signal was the perfect complement to WXPS, as WEAV reaches well into the much larger metro area of Montréal, Québec.Separate programming returned to WEAV in April 1999, when the station flipped to a talk format.