[BC] Looking for station history..WINF 1250 Winnsboro, SC

[Donna Halper]

At 07:38 PM 2/11/2007, you wrote:
>I'm now working for a Small AM station outside Greenwood, South Carolina.
>
>While clenaing this place up last month, I found tons of old 
>carts...... half of them weren't even (originally) ours. A buunnch 
>of them came from now defunct WINF 1250 Winnsboro, SC!(WINF is now 
>on 101.9 somewhere nearColumbus, OH)
>
>Anyone know anything about WINF... it's time frame, ownership, 
>format, etc? Anyone know where I might go and look for more information??

Well, the one you are a now, WABV, got started in late 1956, I do 
believe, at 1590 kc, with a power of 1000 wonderful watts, daytime 
only.  J. A. Gallimore was the owner, according to my Radio/TV 
Annual.  By early 1961, George W. Settles Jr (who had been the GM in 
1957) was listed as president.  But I see no WINF.  However, in 1962, 
there is a WCKM in Winnsboro-- WCKM was at 1250, 500 watts daytime, 
started in 1961, and undoubtedly it later became WINF.