Five years later, as a student at CMU, I was still listening to WWKS. They had since changed their format slightly, and were playing more older music, stuff from the 60's, 70's, and 80's, and it was fantastic. My ultimate goal was to buy a house somewhere that I could get their signal. I am quite attached to my music. They had by then also started calling themselves Kiss 106.7.
Then, one evening in the spring of 1994, a DJ at the station named Bill Cameron locked himself in after his shift that evening. For the next 40 hours or so he played Def Leppard's "Rock Rock til you Drop" to attempt to convince station management to switch to a hard rock/heavy metal format.
He won. The Force was born. It featured satellite-fed hard rock and heavy metal, or at least, I assume it did. I no longer listened to it.
What does this have to do with WSSZ and WAMO? Well, when I was in high school, while traveling to Greensburg I discovered a radio station which played music which I enjoyed, but which I had lots of trouble getting on my radio at home later that evening. At the time I thought little of it, but after the demise of the WWKS I did some experimenting and was able to receive WSSZ in my room at CMU.