| WAOC | |
| City: | St. Augustine, Florida |
| Area: | Jacksonville, Florida |
| Branding: | Way Radio |
| Frequency: | 1420 kHz |
| Translator: | 96.5 W243AW (Middleburg) |
| Airdate: | January 3, 1954 (as WSTN) |
| Format: | Christian Talk and Teaching (WAYR simulcast) |
| Power: | 2,000 watts day 230 watts night |
| Class: | B |
| Facility Id: | 2706 |
| Coordinates: | 29.85°N -81.3306°W |
| Former Callsigns: | WSTN (1954-1960s) WETH (1960s-1970) |
| Owner: | Good Tidings Trust, Inc. |
| Sister Stations: | WAYR, WAYR-FM |
| Licensing Authority: | FCC |
WAOC (1420 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a Christian talk and teaching format. Licensed to St. Augustine, Florida, United States, the station serves the Jacksonville area. The station is currently owned Good Tidings Trust, Inc.[1]
WAOC programming is also relayed on an FM translator.
WAOC begins broadcasting as WSTN on January 3. It is initially a 1 kW daytimer.
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.
WAOC airs a news/talk format in competition with WFOY. Its sister station WJQR signs on.
WAOC is bought by Shull Broadcasting & becomes a sister station to WFOY as "Real Country 1420".
On May 14, 2021, WAOC changed formats from sports to a simulcast of religious-formatted WAYR 550 AM Fleming Island, branded as "Way Radio".[2] Effective July 27, 2021, then owner Phillips Broadcasting sold WAOC and translator W243AW to Good Tidings Trust, Inc. for $199,000.
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 lottery commissioner in North Carolina. Geddings must serve 4 years in federal prison in Jesup, Georgia, as well as pay a $25,000 fine.[3] His conviction was vacated 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.