station became WCZN and changed formats from adult contemporary to country. In 1994, the station, which began airing adult standards music as "Unforgettable 1590" the previous year, made news with its call letters. Roach filed to change WCZN's call letters to WAWA, with the station being only a mile from the unincorporated community. While the FCC approved the application in September, the proposal drew interest from another Wawa: the Philadelphia-based convenience store chain, which filed suit in federal court and claimed the change in call letters violated state and federal trademark laws. The chain was successful in coercing another change of call letters; on October 24, WAWA became WPWA, restoring the original call letters after 40 years. In 1996, after receiving an unsolicited offer from the Children's Broadcasting Corporation, Roach sold WPWA for $1.3 million; CBC flipped the station to the Radio AAHS network, airing children's programming. After Radio AAHS discontinued operations on January 30, 1998, Children's Broadcasting Corporation, WPWA's owner, needed programming for the ten CBC-owned and operated Radio AAHS stations until it could find buyers. In February 1998, WPWA, along with the other nine CBC stations, became an outlet for Beat Radio, which broadcast electronic dance music 12 hours a day until late October 1998, when the sale to the Catholic Radio Network was consummated. CRN sold the station for $675,000 to Mount Ocean, owned by Rev. Son Young Joo, in 2001. Under Mount Ocean ownership, the station has primarily offered ethnic and religious programming, including shows in Korean, gospel music, and, in 2005, Spanish-language coverage of the Philadelphia Phillies. In 2012, former station employee Al Edmondson, Jr., began buying airtime on WPWA and programmed some local shows on Sunday mornings. References External links Chester, Pennsylvania PWA Radio stations established in 1947 1947 establishments in Pennsylvania PWA