Oldies 106.1

Well, another Oldies station has bit the dust. Oldies 106.1 (WOLS, Waxhaw) in Charlotte has flipped to some foreign job. While it was a great Oldies format, (albeit satellite-fed) playing a lot of great oldies that haven't been played in Charlotte for a long, long time, it was disturbing to me that the signal was not very strong in Gastonia, Cherryville, Bessemer City and Kings Mountain. Their coverage map showed that they covered Gaston County and part of Cleveland County, but no indication of the Milivolts, go figure.

Their "Southern Lawn and Garden" talk show on Saturdays should have been a clue that it wouldn't last. Every weekend that I wanted to ride around on Saturdays and listen to Oldies on the only Oldies station in the area, here they were friggin' talking about leaves, Yellow Nut's Edge and vines... criminy.
I didn't hear the sign-off/flip, but I was told that there was no warning, no tribute, no countdown, no special announcement or anything, damn.
On January 1, 2009, the calls were changed from WOLS to WOLH by Norsan Media.
Thank goodness I can still hear 63 Big Ways on AM when in the area!