WAVO (1150 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a Adult Standards format. Licensed to Rock Hill, South Carolina, USA, the station serves the Charlotte area. The station is currently owned by Whvn. Jonas Bridges, owner of WKMT in Kings Mountain, North Carolina, owned WTYC when it was a country music ... See more 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. By 1996, WAVO was airing the same programming as Christian WHVN. For a brief time in 1997, WAVO aired the same programming as talk station WTLT. On July 10, 2008 at 11:50 A.M., WAVO ended its simulcast of WHVN to begin playing music by artists such as Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Ella Fitzgerald, Johnny Mathis, Glenn Miller and Tommy Dorsey who had once been heard on WNMX, also operated by the same company as WAVO. Big Band Jump would also air each week. Until the company's standards format was cancelled in September 2008, WAVO featured programming from Jones Radio Networks.

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