WYFQ
radio station (930 AM) licensed to Charlotte, North Carolina, United States, which used the call sign WSOC until March 1992
WYFQ (930 kHz) and WYHG (93.5 MHz) are two radio stations in the Charlotte metropolitan area of North Carolina that serve as the flagship stations of the Bible Broadcasting Network along with WYFQ-FM. The AM station operates with a power of 5,000 watts daytime and 1,000 watts nighttime, and is licensed to Charlotte. A directional antenna system is used during the station's nighttime hours. The FM station operates with an effective radiated power of 8,700 watts, and is licensed to the Wadesboro, North Carolina. The FM station serves mainly as a repeater for the eastern portion of the Charlotte radio market.
History
The 930 frequency first went on the air with the call sign WIST in 1951. WIST was founded by Cosmos Broadcasting Company, and was a sister station to Columbia, South Carolina's heritage station 560 WIS, as well as having an FM simulcast (now WNKS). Its first studios were on North Tryon Street, two blocks from the square in uptown Charlotte.
As WIST, the station was initially a network affiliate of the Mutual Broadcasting System, but by the late 1950s, it had dropped the network to become Charlotte's first independent radio station and later Charlotte's first Top-40 station. Popular disc jockeys at that time included Jimmy Kilgo, Bob Chessen and Jim Martin.
In 1960, in a rare move for broadcasters of the day, WIST traded frequencies with WSOC at 1240 on the dial (now WHVN).
The public source identifies “WYFQ” as radio station (930 AM) licensed to Charlotte, North Carolina, United States, which used the call sign WSOC until March 1992. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around WYFQ, radio and station.
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Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7958018. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1951, 1960 and 1240.
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This entry incorporates text from “WYFQ” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.