WKAZ (AM)

WKAZ

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City of license	Charleston, West Virginia
Broadcast area	Charleston, West Virginia Kanawha County, West Virginia
Branding	"68 KAZ-AM"
Slogan	"Charleston's Oldies Station"
Frequency	680 kHz
First air date	1946
Format	Oldies
Power	10,000 Watts daytime 221 Watts nighttime
Class	B
Facility ID	71662
Transmitter coordinates
Former callsigns	WCAW (?-2006)
Affiliations	West Virginia MetroNews
Owner	West Virginia Radio Corporation (West Virginia Radio Corporation of Charleston)
Sister stations	WCHS, WKAZ-FM, WKWS, WRVZ, WSWW, WSWW-FM, WVAF

WKAZ (680 AM, "68 KAZ-AM") is an oldies formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Charleston, West Virginia, serving Charleston and Kanawha County, West Virginia. WKAZ is owned and operated by West Virginia Radio Corporation.

History

Originally WCAW, the station was the top-rated "top 40" station in the market during most of the early 1960s. Its main competition within the format at that time was WGKV and WKAZ. The primary rating battle was between WCAW and WCHS. WCAW was bought by The West Virginia Radio Corporation in 1993, along with WVAF. At various times broadcasting country and American standards formats, the station was formerly a gospel station until sister station WKAZ-FM became Jack FM in 2006, at which point the oldies format was moved to WKAZ. In addition to its primary AM frequency, WKAZ-AM simulcasts on 95.3 FM (not to be confused with its aforementioned sister station WKAZ-FM, which does not share the Oldies format and broadcasts on 107.3 FM).

External links

• WKAZ on the WVRC Website
• Query the FCC's AM station database for WKAZ
• Radio-Locator Information on WKAZ
• Query Nielsen Audio's AM station database for WKAZ