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WILA, Danville sold

It's sad. We are losing all the old locals. What's left out there live and local doing community programming??????? :( :( :'( It's hard to imagine a time when radio wars happened between tiny AM daytimers who wanted to play the hottest hot hits but also run obits and the National Anthem sign off and maybe a talk show and a swap shop and then more hot hits. People would climb on a building to get a frisbee from these stations!!!!
 
WILA 1580 was a very well-programmed R&B outlet. Sad to see one of the City by the Dan's great local radio stations sign-off.

Interesting to see how the new classic hits format will fare against Oldies Radio 1330 WBTM, not to mention signing on in a town surrounded by three radio markets with lots of FM competition.

Lakes Media does some good radio, too, but even with an FM translator, it's going to be an uphill climb.
 
Never heard of it.

We used to eat in Danville every night when my mother was teaching. She didn't want to fix supper. One way to go was down old 29, which I enjoyed. At night we could see these red lights. One night and wanted to find out where those lights were. Somehow we found them and it was a beautiful sight as we got close to the four towers. I think the station's call letters were WDVA. But I don't remember what they played. I remember listening to pop on WFRC and country on WREV.
 
Those four towers are definitely WDVA, located at 1 Radio Lane off US 58 Business west of town). They are quite a sight at dusk coming down Piney Forest Road towards Riverside Drive.

1250 WDVA broadcast 5,000 watts day and night, and you can tell one of those towers was a later addition, I think the furthest west in the array. I think they were AM stereo at one time as well.

WDVA was a longtime country outlet until around 1991 or 92, when it went dark awhile. The land the station sits upon is adjacent to Danville's tawny Westover neighborhood and there was talk the station might be bulldozed in favor of other development on the valuable site, but WDVA came back, this time with the current black gospel format. Before going dark, they aired Rush Limbaugh's program, which moved over to cross-town 1330 WBTM. In the 1950s and 1960s, the station hosted a "WDVA Barn Dance" on Saturday nights with live country acts.
 
I'm aware of WAME-550 in Statesville, which is using an FM translator on 92.9, which they bought from Triad Family Radio in Winston-Salem.

Later . . . .
 
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