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WBSA (1300 AM, "Total Christian Radio") is a radio station licensed to serve Boaz, Alabama. The station is owned by Watkins Broadcasting, Inc. It airs a Christian radio format featuring Southern Gospel music.〔 (【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.arbitron.com/ )〕 WBSA is the only radio station licensed to Boaz, Alabama, by the Federal Communications Commission. WBSA plays southern gospel and bluegrass gospel music. They also have on-air devotions. On air personalities include Dale Johnson, Chris Watkins, James Cornelius, and Regina Leeth. WBSA carries the weekly football games of the Boaz High School Pirates. ==History== This station began regular broadcasting on October 1, 1959, as WAVC.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.wbsaam.com/stationhistory.html )〕 Owned by Ken Sparks and Albert Vearl Cicero (for whom the station was named), WAVC played a mix of popular music, rock'n'roll, and easy listening.〔 In 1961, WAVC was bought by L.D. Bentley and Glenn Cornelius (as Radio Sand Mountain, Inc.) and the callsign was changed to the current WBSA.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Call Sign History )〕 Cornelius operated WBSA until 1982 when it was purchased by Bill Huber and Lawrence Kennamer (as Sand Mountain Advertising, Inc.).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Application Search Details (BAL-19820421HC) )〕 The new owners changed the format to Southern Gospel music. In October 1994, the station was purchased by Reverend Roger Watkins, a Baptist minister and evangelist, as Watkins Broadcasting, Inc.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Application Search Details (BAL-19940701EI) )〕 WBSA celebrated 50 years of broadcasting in 2009. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「WBSA」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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