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Pictures and memorabilia ... SOME PICTURES ARE THUMBNAILS. CLICK TO ENLARGE.
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| The original home of AM 950 as WKNA Radio during the late 40's. This studio was located at 804 Kanawha Boulevard in Charleston. |
| The WXIT (back then, WGKV, then later WHMS) control room in 1958. How about all those little reel-to-reel commercials hanging on the peg-board? This photo was obviously taken in the "pre-cart machine" days! A youthful Ed Rabel in on the air in this picture. |
| The home of cross town rival WXIT AM 1490 at 136 High Street. At one time, WXIT also operated from downtown studios, but (like WKAZ) moved everything to the transmitter building in the 1980's as AM radio's revenue took a nose-dive. This picture was taken in the early 1990's when WLZT-FM "Z107" also operated from this building. AM 1490 is now WSWW, an All-Sports station, and "Z107" is now WKAZ-FM 107.3. Both stations operate from the West Virginia Radio Corporation offices at 1111 Virginia Street East. This structure is still used to house WSWW's 1 kilowatt transmitter. WSWW's antenna can be seen to the far right of the first photo. In the second picture, the sign says it all. Once a powerful broadcast contender, the heritage WXIT callsign is relegated to an honorable mention in the lower right hand corner of the station's sign. The Z107 logo monopolizes the rest of the placard. |
| The old V100 logo is still visible on the Cohen Building on MacCorkle Avenue in Kanawha City. V100, along with St. Albans' FM105, established themselves as the rock stations in Charleston and the Kanawha Valley in the early 1980's. V100 (WVAF-FM, at 99.9 MHz) and country music powerhouse AM 680 WCAW operated from this location for many years. V100 is now an Adult Contemporary station and WCAW plays Adult Standards. Both stations now operate from the West Virginia Radio Corporation offices on Virginia Street East in downtown Charleston. |
| Another legendary callsign lives on ... but not in Charleston. WXIT, a graveyard station on 1490 kHz, was WKAZ's primary competition during the heyday of AM rock radio. But as AM listenership declined through the 1980's, AM 1490 underwent several callsign changes and abandoned the heritage WXIT identification. The station was known for a while as WCZR (We're Charleston's Z-Rock), playing satellite-fed heavy metal music, and is now WSWW (also known as 3WS), a sports-talker. We found this logo for the current WXIT on the internet, and posted it here so you'd know the old calls are alive and well. WXIT is a 10 kW news-talk station in Blowing Rock, North Carolina. WXIT serves Blowing Rock, Boone, Lenoir and the Appalachian State University area of Northwest North Carolina. |
West Virginia 1957 License Plate
| When 95 WKAZ signed on the air, your automobile probably had a license plate that looked like this ... |
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