 On September 24, 1947, the station's power was increased from 250 to 1,000 Watts.Subsequently it was purchased by the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel.The call letters of WGL were reinterpreted as "Wayne's Great Lady", referring to Helene Foelliger, who had markedly improved circulation of the News-Sentinel since becoming publisher less than a decade earlier, when she became the youngest, as well as one of the first female, publishers of a major newspaper.