Broadcast area | Jacksonville, Florida |
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Frequency | 1420 kHz |
Branding | Way Radio |
Programming | |
Format | Christian Talk and Teaching ( WAYR simulcast) |
Ownership | |
Owner | Good Tidings Trust, Inc. |
WAYR, WAYR-FM | |
History | |
First air date | January 3, 1954 (as WSTN) |
Former call signs | WSTN (1954-1960s) WETH (1960s-1970) |
Technical information | |
Facility ID | 2706 |
Class | B |
Power | 2,000
watts day 230 watts night |
Transmitter coordinates | 29°51′0″N 81°19′50″W / 29.85000°N 81.33056°W |
Translator(s) | 96.5 W243AW (Middleburg) |
Links | |
Website |
wayradio |
WAOC (1420 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a Christian talk and teaching format. Licensed to St. Augustine, Florida, United States, the station serves the Jacksonville area. The station is currently owned Good Tidings Trust, Inc. [1]
WAOC programming is also relayed on an FM translator.
Call sign | Frequency | City of license | ERP ( W) | Class | FCC info | Notes |
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W243AW | 96.5 FM | Middleburg, Florida | 250 | D | FMQ | Phillips Broadcasting (owner) |
WAOC begins broadcasting as WSTN on January 3. It is initially a 1 kW daytimer.
WAOC was operating in the early 1970s as WAOC (Americas Oldest City) and broadcasting from a single-wide mobile home situated at the transmitter site out in the woods off SR 207. Later in the mid-1970s, the studio moved to the second-highest floor in the National Bank building on Cathedral Place in downtown St. Augustine. The station aired a country/western format with local and national news on the half-hour, provided by A.P. teletype wire tickers.
WAOC airs a news/talk format in competition with WFOY. Its sister station WJQR signs on.
WAOC is bought by Shull Broadcasting & becomes a sister station to WFOY as "Real Country 1420".
On May 14, 2021, WAOC changed formats from sports to a simulcast of religious-formatted WAYR 550 AM Fleming Island, branded as "Way Radio". [2] Effective July 27, 2021, then owner Phillips Broadcasting sold WAOC and translator W243AW to Good Tidings Trust, Inc. for $199,000.
Kevin Leslie Geddings, known on air as "Kevin Leslie" & also husband of WAOC owner Kris Phillips was sentenced on May 7, 2007, due to an October 2006 conviction of 5 counts of fraud when he served as the state lottery commissioner in North Carolina. Geddings must serve 4 years in federal prison in Jesup, Georgia, as well as pay a $25,000 fine. [3] His conviction was vacated on August 27, 2010. The government was ordered to return the $25,000 fine and $500 special assessment Geddings paid. Source: St. Augustine Record. September 7, 2010.
Broadcast area | Jacksonville, Florida |
---|---|
Frequency | 1420 kHz |
Branding | Way Radio |
Programming | |
Format | Christian Talk and Teaching ( WAYR simulcast) |
Ownership | |
Owner | Good Tidings Trust, Inc. |
WAYR, WAYR-FM | |
History | |
First air date | January 3, 1954 (as WSTN) |
Former call signs | WSTN (1954-1960s) WETH (1960s-1970) |
Technical information | |
Facility ID | 2706 |
Class | B |
Power | 2,000
watts day 230 watts night |
Transmitter coordinates | 29°51′0″N 81°19′50″W / 29.85000°N 81.33056°W |
Translator(s) | 96.5 W243AW (Middleburg) |
Links | |
Website |
wayradio |
WAOC (1420 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a Christian talk and teaching format. Licensed to St. Augustine, Florida, United States, the station serves the Jacksonville area. The station is currently owned Good Tidings Trust, Inc. [1]
WAOC programming is also relayed on an FM translator.
Call sign | Frequency | City of license | ERP ( W) | Class | FCC info | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
W243AW | 96.5 FM | Middleburg, Florida | 250 | D | FMQ | Phillips Broadcasting (owner) |
WAOC begins broadcasting as WSTN on January 3. It is initially a 1 kW daytimer.
WAOC was operating in the early 1970s as WAOC (Americas Oldest City) and broadcasting from a single-wide mobile home situated at the transmitter site out in the woods off SR 207. Later in the mid-1970s, the studio moved to the second-highest floor in the National Bank building on Cathedral Place in downtown St. Augustine. The station aired a country/western format with local and national news on the half-hour, provided by A.P. teletype wire tickers.
WAOC airs a news/talk format in competition with WFOY. Its sister station WJQR signs on.
WAOC is bought by Shull Broadcasting & becomes a sister station to WFOY as "Real Country 1420".
On May 14, 2021, WAOC changed formats from sports to a simulcast of religious-formatted WAYR 550 AM Fleming Island, branded as "Way Radio". [2] Effective July 27, 2021, then owner Phillips Broadcasting sold WAOC and translator W243AW to Good Tidings Trust, Inc. for $199,000.
Kevin Leslie Geddings, known on air as "Kevin Leslie" & also husband of WAOC owner Kris Phillips was sentenced on May 7, 2007, due to an October 2006 conviction of 5 counts of fraud when he served as the state lottery commissioner in North Carolina. Geddings must serve 4 years in federal prison in Jesup, Georgia, as well as pay a $25,000 fine. [3] His conviction was vacated on August 27, 2010. The government was ordered to return the $25,000 fine and $500 special assessment Geddings paid. Source: St. Augustine Record. September 7, 2010.