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WAVO
WAVO (1150 AM) is a non-profit radio station licensed to Rock Hill, South Carolina, and serving the Charlotte metropolitan area. Programming is simulcast from 106.9 WMIT Black Mountain, North Carolina, a listener-supported ministry of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. WAVO and WMIT air a mix of Contemporary Christian music with some Christian talk and teaching programs, including national religious leaders Jim Daly, John MacArthur, David Jeremiah, Chuck Swindoll and Charles Stanley. WMIT's radio studios and offices are on Porters Cove Road in Asheville.
By day, WAVO is powered at 5,000 watts, using a non-directional antenna. But to avoid interfering with other stations on 1150 AM, it greatly reduces power at night to 59 watts. WAVO is also heard on FM translator 101.5 W268DM.
On May 2, 1948, the station first signed on as WTYC. It broadcast on 1150 kilocycles with 1,000 watts as a daytimer, required to go off the air at night. The station's owners were O. Frank Thornton, W.G. Reid and W.E. Williams. Thornton sold his interest in the station after his election as South Carolina Secretary of State in January 1950. Reid sold the station to T. Lamar Simmons in 1953.
Jonas Bridges, owner of WKMT in Kings Mountain, North Carolina, was part of a group that purchased the station in 1958. He owned WTYC when it was a country music station. In April 1989, Bridges bought out his partners and formed a new ownership group which included his son Rob. The station changed its call sign to WXLF and adopted a Contemporary Christian format. Ken Mayfield, a Charlotte-area general manager known for his success with the start up of WNOW (later, he managed WRCM), was brought in. The station went by name "Life 1150." Bridges sold the station to Parkway Communications in 1990, and the call letters were changed to WYRS.
WYRS went dark in early 1992. George H. Buck Jr, the owner of Christian WHVN, bought it from Parkway Communications effective April 6, 1992. The plan was for WYRS to simulcast WHVN. The call letters were changed to WAVO in June 1992. WAVO began airing the same programming as WHVN.
For a brief time in 1997, WAVO aired the same programming as talk station WTLT.
On July 10, 2008, at 11:50 AM, WAVO ended its simulcast of WHVN to begin playing music by adult standards artists such as Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Barbra Streisand, and Neil Diamond which had once been heard on WNMX, also operated by the same company as WAVO. The specialty show Big Band Jump aired each week. Until the format was cancelled in September 2008, WAVO featured programming from Jones Radio Networks[citation needed].
Starting in December 2008, WAVO's music was also heard on WEGO, allowing expansion of the station's daytime coverage area.
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WAVO
WAVO (1150 AM) is a non-profit radio station licensed to Rock Hill, South Carolina, and serving the Charlotte metropolitan area. Programming is simulcast from 106.9 WMIT Black Mountain, North Carolina, a listener-supported ministry of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. WAVO and WMIT air a mix of Contemporary Christian music with some Christian talk and teaching programs, including national religious leaders Jim Daly, John MacArthur, David Jeremiah, Chuck Swindoll and Charles Stanley. WMIT's radio studios and offices are on Porters Cove Road in Asheville.
By day, WAVO is powered at 5,000 watts, using a non-directional antenna. But to avoid interfering with other stations on 1150 AM, it greatly reduces power at night to 59 watts. WAVO is also heard on FM translator 101.5 W268DM.
On May 2, 1948, the station first signed on as WTYC. It broadcast on 1150 kilocycles with 1,000 watts as a daytimer, required to go off the air at night. The station's owners were O. Frank Thornton, W.G. Reid and W.E. Williams. Thornton sold his interest in the station after his election as South Carolina Secretary of State in January 1950. Reid sold the station to T. Lamar Simmons in 1953.
Jonas Bridges, owner of WKMT in Kings Mountain, North Carolina, was part of a group that purchased the station in 1958. He owned WTYC when it was a country music station. In April 1989, Bridges bought out his partners and formed a new ownership group which included his son Rob. The station changed its call sign to WXLF and adopted a Contemporary Christian format. Ken Mayfield, a Charlotte-area general manager known for his success with the start up of WNOW (later, he managed WRCM), was brought in. The station went by name "Life 1150." Bridges sold the station to Parkway Communications in 1990, and the call letters were changed to WYRS.
WYRS went dark in early 1992. George H. Buck Jr, the owner of Christian WHVN, bought it from Parkway Communications effective April 6, 1992. The plan was for WYRS to simulcast WHVN. The call letters were changed to WAVO in June 1992. WAVO began airing the same programming as WHVN.
For a brief time in 1997, WAVO aired the same programming as talk station WTLT.
On July 10, 2008, at 11:50 AM, WAVO ended its simulcast of WHVN to begin playing music by adult standards artists such as Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Barbra Streisand, and Neil Diamond which had once been heard on WNMX, also operated by the same company as WAVO. The specialty show Big Band Jump aired each week. Until the format was cancelled in September 2008, WAVO featured programming from Jones Radio Networks[citation needed].
Starting in December 2008, WAVO's music was also heard on WEGO, allowing expansion of the station's daytime coverage area.