WKAZ (AM)

WKAZ

City	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	38°19′7.0″N 81°32′28.0″W / 38.318611°N 81.541111°W / 38.318611; -81.541111
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

Radio stations in the Charleston, West Virginia market

By AM frequency	560 580 680 950 1080 1110 1240 1300 1340 1410 1450 1490

By FM frequency	88.1 88.5 90.9 92.5 92.9 93.3 94.5 96.1 96.9 97.5 98.7 99.9 100.9 102.7 103.7 105.1 106.9 107.3 107.9

NOAA Weather Radio	162.55

By callsign	WAXE-LP WBES WCHS WCIR-FM WCWV WEMM-FM WJLS WJYP WKAZ WKAZ-FM WKLC-FM WKVW WKWS WLUX WMON WMUX WMXE WONS WQBE-FM WRVZ WSCW WSWW WTSQ-LP WVAF WVPB WVSR-FM WVTS WWSA-LP WXAF WXJ84 WYNL WZAC-FM

Defunct stations	WXDB-LP

West Virginia radio markets Beckley Bluefield Charleston Huntington Morgantown–Clarksburg–Fairmont Parkersburg Wheeling Other West Virginia radio regions Cumberland, MD East-Central Eastern Panhandle Elkins–Buckhannon–Weston Kingwood Southern West-Central Winchester, VA See also List of radio stations in West Virginia

Oldies radio stations in the state of West Virginia

By callsign	WBBD – Wheeling WCBC – Keyser WCLG – Morgantown WDMX – Vienna WELD – Fisher WFGM-FM - Barrackville WFSP-FM – Kingwood WKAZ – Charleston WSGB – Sutton WUKL – Bethlehem WVAR – Richwood

See also adult contemporary classic hits college country news/talk NPR oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in West Virginia See also Oldies Classic Hits

West Virginia Radio Corporation

AM Radio Stations:	WAJR WBUC WCHS WCMD WDNE WEPM WJLS WKAZ WKLP WSWW

FM Radio Stations:	WAJR-FM WBRB WBTQ WDNE-FM WDYK WDZN WELK WFBY WFGM-FM WICL WJLS-FM WKAZ-FM WKKW WKWS WLTF WQZK-FM WRVZ WSWW-FM WVAF WVAQ WVMD WWLW

Radio Networks:	West Virginia MetroNews

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