WSKY is a radio station

Radio station

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 broadcasting a religious format. Licensed to Asheville, North Carolina

Asheville, North Carolina

Asheville is a city in and the county seat of Buncombe County, North Carolina, United States. It is the largest city in Western North Carolina, and the 11th largest city in North Carolina. The City is home to the United States National Climatic Data Center , which is the world's largest active...

, USA. The station is currently owned by Wilkins Communications Network.

History

For almost 50 years, Zeb Lee ran WSKY, including serving as an announcer for high-school football games. He was the first to introduce rock and roll

Rock and roll

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 to Asheville when he sponsored an Elvis Presley

Elvis Presley

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 concert in 1955.

Zeb Lee was an pioneer in Asheville broadcasting. First he loved radio and honestly cared about the community; he produced many great radio programs, including "The Man on The Street" a daily talk show live from in front of the S & W Cafeteria in downtown Asheville. And for years Zeb and his engineer "Buddy" Resienburg did a live broadcast of every Asheville High football game for many years. Zeb Lee hired and trained many DJ's that went on to have great careers in large market radio.

WSKY was a Top 40 station in the 1970s and early 1980s.

In March 1994, Lee sold WSKY in order to put WZLS

WOXL-FM

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 on the air.

Later, the station switched to oldies

Oldies

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 and then talk radio

Talk radio

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. It was the first Asheville station to air Rush Limbaugh

Rush Limbaugh

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. When WTZY (now WPEK

WPEK

WPEK , known as "880 the Revolution", is a daytime-only AM radio station in Fairview, North Carolina serving the greater Asheville, North Carolina area.-History:...

) signed on, most of WSKY's talk programming moved there, and WSKY changed to Christian

Christian

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programming.