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WKAX
WKAX (1500 AM) is a radio station licensed to serve Russellville, Alabama. The station is owned by Pilati Investments Inc. It airs a Spanish format from sunrise to sunset.
History.
WKAX signed on as a new AM radio station with 1,000 watts of power, daytime only, at 1500 kHz on April 3, 1974. The station was put on the air under the ownership of the Russellville Broadcasting Co., Inc.
In December 1978, Russellville Broadcasting Co., Inc., reached an agreement to sell
American community. It is owned by Courtney French.
History of WATV.
The station currently known as WATV signed on in 1946 as WKAX. It took its present callsign in 1958, as a CBS-affiliated, dual talk/MOR-formatted station. Prior to then, the callsign of the station was WLBS. Due to the restrictions of the Federal Communications Commission, the station originally broadcast only during daylight hours. In 1976, the owner of WENN, the top-rated urban-formatted station in Birmingham