WAIA
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]
City | Beaver Dam, Kentucky |
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Frequency | 1600 kHz |
Programming | |
Format | Defunct |
Ownership | |
Owner | Starlight Broadcasting Co., Inc. |
History | |
First air date | June 21, 1969[1] |
Former call signs | WLLS (June 21, 1969-October 1, 1996) WSNR (October 1, 1996-March 26, 2001) WAIA (March 26, 2001-July 19, 2012) |
Technical information | |
Facility ID | 26493 |
Class | D |
Power | 1,000 watts day 68 watts night |
Transmitter coordinates | 37°26′36″N 86°53′57″W |
History
The station originally signed on on June 21, 1969. Before October 1, 1996, it was WLLS, a daytime-only simulcast of WLLS-FM. The station changed its callsign to WSNR on October 1, 1996. On March 26, 2001, the station changed its callsign again to WAIA.[3]
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.
References
- 2010 Broadcasting Yearbook, page D-240.
- "WAIA Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
- "WAIA Call Sign History". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
External links
- WAIA in the FCC's AM station database
- WAIA on Radio-Locator
- WAIA in Nielsen Audio's AM station database