WAIA (1600 AM) was a

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formerly licensed to

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, United States. The station was owned by Starlight Broadcasting Co., Inc.

History

The station originally signed on on June 21, 1969. Before October 1, 1996, it was WLLS, a daytime-only simulcast of WLLS-FM. The station changed its callsign to WSNR on October 1, 1996. On March 26, 2001, the station changed its callsign again to WAIA. Starlight Broadcasting surrendered the station's license to the

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(FCC) on June 26, 2012. The station's license was cancelled and its call sign deleted from the FCC's database on July 19, 2012. Before permanently signing off, both WAIA and

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served as a simulcast of

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of Greenville. In 2012, after WAIA went off the air, WXMZ began broadcasting its own station programming, and it, too, began running an Oldies format, and moved to a frequency of 99.9

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ESPN Radio stations Radio stations established in 1969 Radio stations disestablished in 2012 Defunct radio stations in the United States 1969 establishments in Kentucky 2012 disestablishments in Kentucky

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