August 13, 1973. Raiford described Allen as ""just to the right of Genghis Khan." Raiford was notorious for screaming at callers. The format was unsuccessful, and Statesville Broadcasting sold the station by the middle of the 1970s. Adult contemporary turned country era WIST's next ownership was a partnership between former WBT ad salesman Al Munn and Consolidated Theater Corporation. Munn initially changed the format to adult contemporary music and brought his family into the employ of the station. Munn also attempted to operate the station as a broadcasting school, eventually separating the school functions into the "WISTA School of Broadcasting." In 1979 the Charlotte radio landscape had a major change. Longtime AM country music leader WAME was purchased by Jimmy Swaggart Ministries and became a religious station. The country music format hole was quickly filled by WIST, becoming "Live Country 1240". By this time the partnership between Munn and Consolidated Theaters was coming unraveled, and the theater company bought Munn out of the arrangement. In the early 1980s, WIST gave country music its last serious attempt on the AM dial in Charlotte, becoming "The Bright Spot." The format was innovative, but most country listeners had switched to WSOC-FM and the format did not succeed. As its last gasp, WIST tried Top 40 again in the early 1980s before signing off the air. Switch to religious format In 1983, the station was purchased by George H. Buck, who at that time owned WHVN, which operated daytime-only at 1310 kHz. Originally, 1310 had been WKTC, Charlotte's first country station, before adopting a Christian format in 1971. WHVN moved to the 1240 frequency, and sold its old frequency to Dick Tomlinson. Tomlinson began WGSP on 1310, which exists today as a Regional Mexican format. For most of the years between 1996 and 2008, WAVO in Rock Hill, South Carolina simulcast WHVN. The simulcast resumed from 2018 to 2020. In 1998, WHVN's owner bought WCGC in Belmont. In 2009, WHVN Inc. bought an existing permit for a translator at 93.5 FM. As of August 2009, the radio station used another translator at 104.3 FM. Later years and shutdown In 2014, WTIX in Concord, North Carolina (currently WEGO) began simulcasting WHVN. This ended with the WTIX sale in 2015. On February 1, 2019, The Carolina Catholic Radio Network entered into an LMA with GHB Broadcasting to operate WCGC. The majority of the programming would come