WHIS

WHIS is owned and operated by Charles Spencer and Rick Lambert, through licensee First Media Services, LLC.

[1] The new station would adopt the WHIS call letters in honor of the newspaper's editor, Hugh Ike Shott, and be based in the West Virginian Hotel in downtown Bluefield.

The transmitter was located in Hugh Ike Shott's office; however, a battery in the equipment spilled acid and damaged a prized rug he owned, spelling the end of the station.

In March, reformed gambler and vaudeville performer Kid Canfield was speaking on the air when he abruptly died on air—the first known on-air death in radio.

[10] The rest of the decade was spent upgrading: the station doubled its daytime and nighttime power to go to 1,000 watts day and 500 night in 1936 from a new site in the Harry Heights area, and WHIS moved to its present 1440 kHz upon NARBA reallocation in 1941.

[6] The Shott family continued to own the Daily Telegraph and the WHIS stations—including a re-established WHIS-FM, which reclaimed the WHAJ call sign in 1976[18]—into the 1970s.

[20] The Supreme Court upheld the rule in 1978,[21] and the Daily Telegraph sold the television station to Quincy Newspapers in 1979.