page_title: WKZV (Pennsylvania)
section_title: The WKEG years
hierarchical_section_title: WKZV (Pennsylvania) / History / The WKEG years
caption_attribution_description: English: WKZV's current studio location in its history on the second floor of 80 East Chestnut Street in Washington, Pennsylvania. Note the WKZV call letters on the second floor on-air studio window and the signage out front.Own work.
context_page_description: WKZV was a 1,000–watt, two-tower directional, daytime-only AM radio station in the Pittsburgh radio market, licensed to Washington, Pennsylvania. On May 16, 2013, the station went dark, and returned its license to the FCC, after ending its country music format of more than two decades. Call letters WKZV is now assigned to 102.1 FM Savannah, GA as a K-LOVE Christian station.
context_section_description: Known then as WKEG, the station was first issued a construction permit in August 1968, signing on October 1, 1970.  Among the station's original staff at start-up was general manager Lew Wade, vice president Leo Shank, and chief engineer Richard Canter.
  WKEG featured a full-service format of middle-of-the-road, country, and polka music.  The polka show was hosted by local polka musician Gil Yurus, who joined the station at start-up and remained until financial troubles began in the late 1980s.
  WKEG maintained its original owner until September 1972, when DiLeLo Broadcasting sold the station to Nascone Enterprises (dba Genas Broadcasting), a company headed by Joseph P. Nascone, the former sales manager of WTAE Radio in Pittsburgh.
  
  Upon acquisition, Joe Nascone changed the station's format to easy listening.   Genas Broadcasting operated the station until 1987 when it was purchased by Ferguson Broadcasting.  
  For many of its early years, the station operated out of a trailer at its transmitter site at 59 McLane Road (now Whitetail Drive) in Chartiers Township, north of downtown Washington, and then to the former George Washington Hotel in downtown Washington.
   
  The station would move in the late 1980s to another studio location at 71 North Main Street in downtown Washington, following its purchase by Ferguson Broadcasting, and then to its final location on East Chestnut Street in 1990.
  The third owner, William Ferguson, changed the station's format to adult contemporary, delivered via satellite through the Transtar Radio Network.  The station ended up going dark in two years.
  The station was then purchased by JJG Communications, a company headed by Carmichaels businessman John G. Brodak and John Loeper, the former general manager of WANB/WANB-FM in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania.
  
  JJG made another go of the station, this time with a news/talk/sports format, also mostly via satellite.  The station failed again, and was off the air by October 1991.
caption: WKZV's last studio location in its history on the second floor of 80 East Chestnut Street in Washington, Pennsylvania. Note the WKZV call letters on the second floor on-air studio window and the signage out front.
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