WAVO

WAVO (1150 AM) is a radio station broadcasting an Adult Standards format. Licensed to Rock Hill, South Carolina, USA, the station serves the Charlotte area. The station is currently owned by WHVN Inc.

WAVO carries newscasts at the start of each hour from Salem Radio Network.

History

WTYC began broadcasting May 2, 1948, on 1150 kHz with 1 KW power (daytime). The station's owners were O. Frank Thornton, W.G. Reid and W.E. Williams.

Jonas Bridges, owner of WKMT in Kings Mountain, North Carolina, owned WTYC when it was a country music station during its 40th year of existence. Ken Mayfield, a Charlotte-area general manager known for his success with the start up of WNOW (later, he managed WRCM), was brought in to change the format to Contemporary Christian on April 1, 1989 and change the call letters to WXLF. The station went by Life 1150. Bridges sold the station to Parkway Communications in 1990.

WYRS was off the air when the owner of Christian WHVN bought the station from Parkway Communications effective April 6, 1992. The plan was for WYRS to simulcast WHVN.