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The Essentials

Call Letters: WAYI
Frequency: 104.3fm
City of License: Charlestown
Metro(s): Louisville
Power: 3000 watts @ 328 feet (Class A)
Format: Religious
Address: 3211 Grant Line Rd., Suite 1, New Albany, IN 47150-2175
Phone:
Ownership: WAY Media, Inc.
Web Presence: http://www.wayfm.com

Station Personnel

Current

Former

WBLO-FM

President: Director of Engineering: Peter Boyce
VP/Programming: Tony Fields
GM: Dale Schaefer
GM: Bill Gentry
Chief Engineer: Scott Cason
Station Manager: Dwayne Watkins
GSM: Holly Bussey
GSM: Doug James (September 2000 - ?) (From GSM at Clear Channel in Louisville, Kentucky)
NSM: Neel Campbell
SM: Jerome Hutchinson
OM/PD: Bill Price (April 1998 - ?) (From WLSY)
OM: Barry Fox (January 2001 - ?) (From PD/middays at WDJX in Louisville, Kentucky)
PD: Mark Gunn (January 2002 - ?)
PD: Karen Jordan
PD: Kenny Miles
PD: Carlos Rowlett
MD: Gerald Harrison
Promotions Director: Valerie Sickles
Mornings: Gerald Harrison (6am - 10am)
Mornings: "B-Real" (6am - 10am)
Middays: Kelly K. (? - May 1999)
Middays: Nikki Love (10am - 3pm)
Afternoons: "DJ-Nine" (3pm - 8pm)
Late Nights: "Sensational Cyn" (8pm - 2am)

WEGK-FM

VP/Programming: Tony Fields
GM: Bill Gentry
GM: Dale Schaefer
GSM: Holly Bussey
SM: Jerome Hutchinson
OM: Barry Fox (January 2001 - ?) (From PD/middays at WDJX in Louisville, Kentucky)
PD: Karen Jordan
PD: Bill Price (April 1998 - ?) (From WLSY)
PD: Kenny Miles
PD: Carlos Rowlett
GSM: Doug James (September 2000 - ?) (From GSM at Clear Channel in Louisville, Kentucky)
MD: Gerald Harrison
Mornings: "B-Real" (6am - 10am)
Mornings: Gerald Harrison (6am - 10am)
Middays: Kelly K. (? - May 1999)
Middays: Nikki Love (10am - 3pm)
Afternoons: "DJ-Nine" (3pm - 8pm)
Late Nights: "Sensational Cyn" (8pm - 2am)

WLRX-FM

VP/Programming: Tony Fields
PD: Annrae Fitzgerald (APD: October 2003 - ?)
Middays: Annrae Fitzgerald

WAYI-FM (Take 1)

GM: Matt Hahn (November 2007 - ?) (From VP/Operations of Christian Voice of Central Ohio)

WWPW-FM

Mornings: Rickey Smiley (Syndicated) (6:00am - 11:00am)
Afternoons: "DJ Yung Steff" (3:00pm - 7:00pm)
Nights: "Hypeman Griffitti"

WLUE-FM

WAYI-FM (Take 2)

Imaging Director: "Future Bob"
Mornings: Rocky Knight (6am - 9am)
Mornings: Troy Roebuck (6am - 9am)
Middays: "Future Bob"

Station History

104.3fm signed on April 7, 1998.

WHOX-FM

Owned by Media Five Corp.

WLVX-FM

Owned by New Albany Broadcasting Co., Inc. We don't believe they ever used the WLVX call letters on air. WLVX became WBLO in April 1998.

WBLO-FM

New Albany Broadcasting Co., Inc. owned WBLO and had an LMA with Blue Chip Broadcasting Co., with studios located at 410 Mt. Tabor Road, New Albany, IN 47150. In 1998, WBLO flipped formats to Urban. Website address was http://www.hot104flava.com. Studios located at 520 S. Fourth Avenue, Suite 300, Louisville, KY 40202-2577 (Phone: 502.625.1220). During the first week of January 2004, WBLO switched formats to Country and call letters to WEGK. The call letters changed to WEGK shortly thereafter.

WEGK-FM

During its country format, WEGK had the website address http://www.eagle1043.com/. New Albany Broadcasting Co., Inc. owned WEGK and had an LMA with Blue Chip Broadcasting Co. Studios located at 520 S. Fourth Avenue, Suite 300, Louisville, KY 40202-2577 (Telephone: 502.625.1220).

WLRX-FM

Owned by New Albany Broadcasting Co., Inc. with studios located at 520 S. Fourth Avenue, Suite 300, Louisville, KY 40202-2577 (Telephone: 502.625.1220). WLRX debuted as 104.3fm's calls on December 9, 2005. WLRX had an LMA with LMA with Blue Chip Broadcasting Co.. Alternative music format (a simulcast of Alternative/WLRS (105.1fm) in Louisville, Kentucky. WLRX flipped formats (from alternative?) to Contemporary Christian in 2007, after New Albany Broadcasting Co., Inc. sold the station to WAY-FM Media Group for $1 million.

WAYI-FM (Take 1)

Owned by WAY-FM Media Group.

WWPW-FM

Urban Contemporary format, on-air from March 31, 2010 until December 20, 2011. Studios located at 10000 Shelbyville Road, Louisville, KY 40223-2950. WWPW's URL was http://www.1043thebeat.com/.

WLUE-FM

Classic Rock format. Website was http://www.louie1043.com. WLUE-FM became WAYG for a few months (February 2014 until May 2014), before returning to WAYI-FM.

WAYI-FM (Take 2)

For Further Reading...

"Fox OM For Blue Chip/Louisville." Radio & Records. February 16, 2001. Page 21.

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