WAOC (1420 AM) is a

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broadcasting a

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format. Licensed to

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, United States, the station serves the Jacksonville area. The station is currently owned Good Tidings Trust, Inc.

FM translator

WAOC programming is also relayed on an

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History

1950s

1954

WAOC begins broadcasting as WSTN on January 3. It is initially a 1 kW daytimer.

1970s

WAOC was operating in the early 1970s as WAOC (''Americas Oldest City'') and broadcasting from a single-wide mobile home situated at the transmitter site out in the woods off SR 207. Later in the mid-1970s, the studio moved to the second-highest floor in the National Bank building on Cathedral Place in downtown St. Augustine. The station aired a country/western format with local and national news on the half-hour, provided by A.P. teletype wire tickers.

1990s

WAOC airs a news/talk format in competition with WFOY. Its sister station WJQR signs on.

2000s

2002

WAOC is bought by Shull Broadcasting & becomes a sister station to WFOY as "Real Country 1420".

2020s

2021

On May 14, 2021, WAOC changed formats from sports to a simulcast of religious-formatted WAYR 550 AM Fleming Island, branded as "Way Radio". Effective July 27, 2021, then owner Phillips Broadcasting sold WAOC and translator W243AW to Good Tidings Trust, Inc. for $199,000.

Controversy

Kevin Leslie Geddings, known on air as "Kevin Leslie" & also husband of WAOC owner Kris Phillips was sentenced on May 7, 2007, due to an October 2006 conviction of 5 counts of fraud when he served as the state

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commissioner in

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. Geddings must serve 4 years in federal prison in

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, as well as pay a $25,000 fine. His conviction was

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on August 27, 2010. The government was ordered to return the $25,000 fine and $500 special assessment Geddings paid. Source: St. Augustine Record. September 7, 2010.

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