WXST

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WXST
WXST.png
Broadcast area Charleston metropolitan area
South Carolina Lowcountry
Frequency 99.7 MHz (HD Radio)
BrandingStar 99.7
Programming
Format Urban Adult Contemporary
Subchannels HD2: Mainstream Urban "99.3 The Box"
HD3: Urban Gospel (WSPO simulcast)
Affiliations Premiere Networks
Ownership
Owner
  • Saga Communications
  • (Saga South Communications, LLC)
WAVF, WCKN, WMXZ, WSPO
History
First air date
July 15, 1988;35 years ago (1988-07-15) (as WHTK)
Former call signs
WJZX (05/16/2001-08/28/2003)
WHBZ (06/01/1995-05/16/2001)
WNCK (10/14/1994-06/01/1995)
WLOW (01/11/1994-10/14/1994)
WNCK (03/01/1993-01/11/1994)
WHTK (07/15/1988-03/01/1993) [1]
Technical information
Facility ID 3969
Class C1
ERP 70,000 watts
HAAT 238 meters (781 ft)
Transmitter coordinates
 32°49′4.00″N79°50′8.00″W / 32.8177778°N 79.8355556°W / 32.8177778; -79.8355556
Translator(s) HD2: 99.3  W257BQ (Charleston)
Links
Webcast Listen Live
Website star997.com

WXST (99.7 FM, "Star 99.7") is a commercial radio station licensed to Hollywood, South Carolina, and serving the Charleston metropolitan area and the South Carolina Lowcountry. It airs an urban adult contemporary radio format and is owned by Saga Communications as part of its Charleston Radio Group. The studios are on Clements Ferry Road in Charleston. Syndicated programs heard on WXST include The Steve Harvey Morning Show and The Sweat Hotel with Keith Sweat .

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WXST is a Class C1 station. It has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 70,000 watts. The transmitter tower is on Venning Road in Mount Pleasant. [2] WXST broadcasts using HD Radio technology. Its HD2 digital subchannel carries an urban contemporary format, which feeds FM translator W257BQ at 99.7 MHz. The HD3 subchannel simulcasts the urban gospel format on co-owned WSPO 1390 AM.

History

WHTK Top 40

The station signed on the air on July 15, 1988;35 years ago. The original call sign was WHTK. At the time, it was licensed to Port Royal, with studios located near the town of Bluffton. It was owned by Barnicle Broadcasting and featured a Top 40 - CHR format targeting nearby Hilton Head, Beaufort and Savannah, Georgia.

Although ratings were good in its home market of Hilton Head and Beaufort, the station faced stiff competition from competitor 102.1 WZAT in the Savannah market as well as a weak signal in that area. WHTK played a major role during Hurricane Hugo in 1989. It was one of the few radio stations that was able to stay on the air for most of the storm and broadcast information to the Lowcountry.

WNCK Country

In January 1993, the station dropped its CHR format for Country under the new call letters of WNCK as "K99.7". This lasted less than a year before the station changed formats again to Adult Standards as WLOW, which stood for "Low" Country. It moved down the dial from 106.9 to 99.7 MHz.

WLOW eventually moved to 107.9 within a year's time and 99.7 once again became WNCK with a Talk format. It eventually gave way to a Contemporary Christian format before going dark in May, 1995.

WHBZ Beach music

By the Summer of 1995, it was sold to Baker Broadcasting, which changed the station to a syndicated Beach Music format under the WHBZ call letters as "The Breeze." It was paired with WWBZ in McClellanville, South Carolina and adding WLXC in Columbia, South Carolina in early 1996.

By 2001, Baker Broadcasting sold WHBZ to Apex Broadcasting, which dropped the simulcast with WWBZ and flipped the station to a simulcast with WSIS. Then it briefly had an All-Comedy format, then a brief satellite-fed Classic rock format with local shows on the weekend. The station became Smooth Jazz under the WJZX call letters.

During this time, the station made a long-planned move into the Charleston radio market by changing its city of license to Hollywood and moving its tower to Mount Pleasant, which was completed in 2003.

WXST Urban AC

When the move into the Charleston radio market was completed in 1993, the station changed its format again. This time it was Urban Adult Contemporary, using the call sign WXST. It adopted the moniker "Star 99.7".

On September 6, 2017, the station was sold to Saga Communications. [3] Saga kept the format as Urban AC.

Call letter history

Prior to this, the WXST call letters were first assigned to a station licensed to Loudon, Tennessee, beginning May 24, 1991. It remained until they were dropped on March 16, 1998 for WESK.) [4] Then, WXST was assigned to STAR 107.9 in Delaware, Ohio beginning June 26, 1998. They remained until they were dropped on April 23, 2001 for WJHT, only to be reacquired on May 16, 2001. WXST/Delaware was dropped completely for WODB July 27, 2001 (now WVMX). [5]

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References

  1. ↑ "Call Sign History" . Retrieved 2010-08-24.
  2. ↑ Radio-Locator.com/WXST
  3. ↑ "Saga Closes The Door On TV, Welcomes Apex Stations". Radio + Television Business Report. 2017-09-06. Retrieved 2018-04-18.
  4. ↑ "Call Sign History (WFIV)" . Retrieved 2010-08-24.
  5. ↑ "Call Sign History (WVMX)" . Retrieved 2010-08-24.

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