WAIA

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WAIA
Frequency 1600 kHz
Programming
Format Defunct
Ownership
OwnerStarlight Broadcasting Co., Inc.
History
First air date
June 21, 1969 [1]
Last air date
June 26, 2012 (2012-06-26)
Former call signs
  • WLLS (1969–1996)
  • WSNR (1996–2001)
  • WAIA (2001–2012)
Technical information
Facility ID 26493
Class D
Power
  • 1,000 watts day
  • 68 watts night
Transmitter coordinates
 37°26′36″N86°53′57″W / 37.44333°N 86.89917°W / 37.44333; -86.89917

WAIA (1600 AM) was a radio station formerly licensed to Beaver Dam, Kentucky, United States. The station was owned by Starlight Broadcasting Co., Inc. [2]

Contents

History

The station originally signed on as daytime-only WLLS on June 21, 1969. The station began operation under ownership by local businessman Hayward Spinks. Two years later, the station signed on its FM companion, WLLS-FM (now WXMZ) in order to provide nighttime service and a better quality signal to the listeners. [3]

The station changed its callsign to WSNR on October 1, 1996. On March 26, 2001, the station changed its callsign again to WAIA. [4]

Starlight Broadcasting surrendered the station's license to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on June 26, 2012. The station's license was cancelled and its call sign deleted from the FCC's database on July 19, 2012.

Before permanently signing off, both WAIA and WXMZ served as a simulcast of WKYA of Greenville. In 2012, after WAIA went off the air, WXMZ began broadcasting its own station programming, and it, too, began running an oldies format, and moved to a frequency of 99.9 MHz.

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References

  1. ↑ 2010 Broadcasting Yearbook, page D-240.
  2. ↑ "WAIA Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
  3. ↑ Nash, Francis M. (1995). Towers Over Kentucky: A History of Radio and TV in the Bluegrass State (PDF). HOST Communications. ISBN   9781879688933 – via World Radio History.
  4. ↑ "WAIA Call Sign History". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.


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