Sharon K. The History Of Fisk Radio Station

For more than a year incoming calls weren't capable of coming through anymore on the old system. Now, we 12 incoming crystal clear lines, and can answer from the Control Room and in the Production Room to answer our listeners and interview calls and donors. 

A big thank you as well to WFSK's engineer Rick Durham for creating and wiring the WFSK studio network. WFSK is not tied into the campus grid now so if there's an issue on campus it won't impact the station's operations.  WFSK exists today 48-years later because of our donors sponsors and underwriters! 
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WVOL The Mighty 1470

WVOL 1470 AM originally hit the airwaves in 1951, under the ownership of Cal Young as WSOK. Its broadcast location was 4th Avenue North in Nashville, where the Nashville Municipal Auditorium is currently located. WSOK 's original format was Rhythm and Blues and Gospel Music. 

 Six years Later, in 1957, R.W. Rounsaville purchased WSOK and the call letters were changed to WVOL. A new building was erected on Brick Church Pike in 1959 and started operation in 1960. It was around this time that the station ingrained itself into the minds of its listeners as the leader of Black-oriented music in Nashville. 

 In 1980, The Phoenix Communication Group acquired WVOL and in 1985, a Dallas music programming network, called Satellite Music, embarked upon a nationwide search for the best Black Music Format to add to their satellite feed system. After listening to the station, Satellite Music launched a mirror image format of WVOL's sound, helping to spread the reputation of WVOL as a national leader of programming in the African-American marketplace. But after more than forty years of live, local broadcasting in Nashville, WVOL became a subscriber to Satellite Music up to the year 1993. After 1993, WVOL was briefly owned by Dicky Broadcasting 

 It was in April 2000 that WVOL came into the ownership of Heidelberg Broadcasting, a limited liability corporation owned by radio veteran, John Heidelberg. The format was Urban Contemporary Gospel during the day, and Jazz overnight. 

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