This was a monster Alternative Rock station in the Charleston SC area. Known as 96 Wave FM, WAVF was the station that brought so many rock artists to the area. This aircheck is from 1996, during a time period where the station was doing exceptionally well in it’s own demo, but 96 Wave always suffered from being in a market that did much better overall with Urban and CHR formats.
This particular broadcast, the station is live at a club downtown Charleston, back when remote broadcasts, really were, live. The aircheck runs 45 mintues, unscoped, but as always, we have to take just about all the music out to comply with copyright law. Still, you get a feel for what a Friday night sounded like here.
Charleston, as with so many markets these days, has had a lot of format and frequency changes since the new millenium took hold. The 96.1 frequency is certainly no exception. At one point, WAVF, known as "96 Wave-FM", was a very popular Mainstream, then Alternative, Rock station. Their yearly "Battle…
Here is a glimpse of 96.9 FM after it emerged from the long dark tunnel of Beautiful Music, which WXTC was from the early 70s after it changed call letters from the heritage WCSC. Hurricane Hugo would devastate the Lowcountry just a few months after this was recorded, but the…
Here's another aircheck where the jock never says her name. Running just over 5 minutes scoped, that would come out to about twenty minutes air time, the music isn't genuine 'urban' format (unless you think Steve Winwood's "Higher Love" is Urban), although the station is certainly branded that way. Another…
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