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WBT studio’s ?
WBT’s studios, like most AM stations were originally at the transmitter site, which is three or four miles from here. When TV came along, I think they moved the radio studios to the TV building.
Few people living in Charlotte now lived here in the 1950s. This might take some detective work. All I know for sure is that in recent years, it had a tattoo parlor and rented apartments in the building in the back.
http://chs54.blogspot.com/2009/08/my-old-station-is-now-on-fm.html
http://wgivhistory.blogspot.com/
The fencing is because the building is being torn down soon to make a new grocery store. It is right across the street from the Lynx LRV maintenance facility
WAYS-FM acquired the property 12 years after it was built for WGIV-AM.
I’m not even sure that is true. WAYS-AM was bought in 1965, but it is located on Radio Road up on the north side (now WFNZ-AM)
I’m pretty sure the guy being kicked out of his apartment is wrong. WAYS-AM studios were always on Radio Road on the North Side. The WAYS-AM studio building was torn down in 2006. It’s plausible WAYS did remote broadcasts once in a while – Radio Center was an R&B night club.
The couple that bought WAYS were very unique. One time the owner brought a horse down the hall to try to get the on air guy to crack up. In the late 70s, they employed “Murphy in the Morning” who pushed the station past the sleeping WBT (I listened to Murphy when I lived here – and mentioned he was working in Chicago). WAYS-AM died in 1982
The grocery store is going to be Lidl, a German chain supposedly similar to Aldi
http://www.businessinsider.com/german-store-lidl-plans-us-expansion-2015-11
They plan to kick Walmart’s ass, starting in 2018
that was good reading for WGIV. Good history, some stations have that, several in Roanoke VA have some history links for WFIR, WROV, WUEZ from people that use to work at them.
some are just gone.
I noticed the WSOC there in Charlotte is still ‘The new 103.7 country’. Hell they have been that for almost ten years. They ruined WTQR in Winston Salem cause they thought saying the call letters was bad. Q104 or something now.
I admit I usually listen to the ‘cat’ WKKT when running around Charlotte on the new 485,
that was a good find Fred
pArrott
The guy that wrote the WGIV history page responded to my email and we are comparing notes. He graduated from Central High School in 1954, so he is solidly into retirement. Maybe I can entice him into saying Hi 😉
I don’t even bother turning on the radio in the car any more. Like WBT, WSOC was tightly connected to its TV partner. My memory of WSOC radio is fairly vague.
I drove by on Monday, and the building has been torn down
Killer.
parrott