WAYA-FM

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WAYA-FM
Broadcast area Charleston metropolitan area
Frequency 100.9 MHz
Branding100.9/101.3 Way FM
Programming
Format Christian contemporary
Network WayFM Network
Ownership
Owner
  • WayFM Network
  • (Hope Media Group)
History
First air date
September 1968 (1968-09)
Former call signs
  • WALD-FM (1968–1979)
  • WKYP (1979–1981)
  • WALD-FM (1981–1992)
  • WNTC (1992–1993)
  • WPAL-FM (1993–2010) [1] [2]
Call sign meaning
WAY
Technical information [3]
Licensing authority
 FCC
Facility ID 25374
Class C3
ERP 13,000 watts
HAAT 91 meters (299 ft)
Transmitter coordinates
 33°4′25.70″N80°11′54.20″W / 33.0738056°N 80.1983889°W / 33.0738056; -80.1983889
Translator 101.3 W267BK (Mount Pleasant)
Repeater 94.3  WSCC-FM HD3 (Goose Creek)
Links
Public license information
Webcast Listen live
Website wayfm.com

WAYA-FM (100.9 FM) is a non-commercial radio station licensed to Ridgeville, South Carolina, United States, and serving the Charleston metropolitan area. It airs the WayFM Network and its Christian contemporary format, owned and operated by the Hope Media Group. [4]

Contents

WAYA-FM's transmitter is sited on Kenyon Lane off Interstate 26 in Summerville. Programming is also heard on low-power FM translator W267BK on 101.3 MHz in Mount Pleasant.

History

The station signed on the air in September 1968. [5] It was licensed to Walterboro, South Carolina. The call sign had been WALD-FM, the sister station to WALD 1060 AM, which is now dark. [1]

William Saunders owned R&B radio station WPAL 730 AM, which had long served the African-American community in Charleston. In 1994, Saunders bought the FM frequency and moved it to Charleston. He changed the format to urban adult contemporary, with the call sign WPAL-FM. [6]

The Hope Media Group acquired the station in 2010. It switched the station to non-commercial Christian Contemporary music, supplied by its WAY-FM network. The call letters changed to WAYA-FM. Most stations owned by Hope Media have WAY in their call signs.

References

  1. 1 2 History Cards for WAYA-FM, fcc.gov. Retrieved November 16, 2018.
  2. ↑ Call Sign History, fcc.gov. Retrieved November 16, 2018.
  3. ↑ "Facility Technical Data for WAYA-FM". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  4. ↑ "WAYA Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
  5. ↑ Broadcasting Yearbook 1977 page C-190. Retrieved June 10, 2024.
  6. ↑ http://www.blackenterprise.com/ArchiveOpen.asp?Source=ArchiveTab/2003/05/0503-26.htm [ dead link ]


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