WAVO

WAVO (1150 AM) is a non-profit radio station licensed to Rock Hill, South Carolina and serving the Charlotte metropolitan area.

Programming is simulcast from 106.9 WMIT Black Mountain, North Carolina, a listener-supported ministry of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association.

[7] Jonas Bridges, owner of WKMT in Kings Mountain, North Carolina, was part of a group that purchased the station in 1958.

George H. Buck Jr, the owner of Christian WHVN, bought it from Parkway Communications effective April 6, 1992.

[14] On July 10, 2008 at 11:50 A.M., WAVO ended its simulcast of WHVN to begin playing music by adult standards artists such as Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Barbra Streisand and Neil Diamond which had once been heard on WNMX, also operated by the same company as WAVO.

[15] Until the format was cancelled in September 2008, WAVO featured programming from Jones Radio Networks[citation needed].

Starting in December 2008, WAVO's music was also heard on WEGO,[16] allowing expansion of the station's daytime coverage area.

Morning host Ken Conrad moved from WOLS when it switched to Spanish, and he added an afternoon show.

Pardo publicized the show on web sites and by handing out information to people wearing team apparel.

[25] In January 2014, "Eat, Drink and Be Merry", hosted by Joe Cutrone, began airing on Saturdays at noon.

Even so, the station continued to air "The Sounds of Sinatra" with Sid Mark on Sundays from 2-4pm and "Jazzology" with George Buck from 4-5pm.

These include "Daily Bread" and "Shining Light Baptist Church" on weekdays and "Power of Prayer", "The Bible Hour" and "Simply The Word" on weekends.

On May 4, 2020, WHVN, Inc., filed an application with the FCC to assign the license for WAVO to Blue Ridge Broadcasting Corporation, the subsidiary of the Billy Graham Ministry that is the licensee for WMIT.