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WKWI “family” members gather to share 50 years of broadcasting memories

Jackie Nunnery

by Jackie Nunnery

From left, former WKWI employee C.D. Hathaway shared behind-the-scenes stories with the newest on-air talent Chris Wright during a Facebook live-stream. Photo by Jackie Nunnery

On September 1, 1975, WKWI flipped the switch and began broadcasting in the Northern Neck.

What followed has been five decades of music, news and sports delivered by familiar voices that have become part of every day life in the Northern Neck.

On Saturday, November 15, members of the WKWI family—past and present—gathered at Lee’s Restaurant in Kilmarnock to share their favorite stories of the station’s beginnings and….

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