1404 AM Radio Tower

The "1404 AM Radio Tower" or "Ashton Abandoned Station" is an urban legend as old as time itself, it is know for being a radio station having cryptic messages during off air or even interrupting in the middle of broadcasts.The reason it was refered to as "abandoned" was becaused noboy ever saw any employees coming in or out of the station.

However, a survey conducted revealed that many of the folklorist and readers dont actually know the true history behind this urban legend.

Histroy:

WAFL is a radio station that was founded in 1920 and claimed to be "the first radio station in mason county area" (not comfirmed). It has been broadcasting in Mason County, West Virginia, USA, the station serves towns of Edenvale, Ashton, and Lasker. It was said to advertise its station ID on posters, newspapers and yellowpages, but nothing has been archived till this day.

Somtime between the late 1930s and early 1940s, the radio station had began broadcasting on tv using the call sign "WAFL-TV". Despite this, they still called themselves as a community radio. Most of the broadcasting that aired on tv in the station's history would usually consist of a static logo and changing programming titles, except for announcements and a few exceptions.

Intrestingly enough, it was believed that the hijacking occured during this time period was more prominent that any other time.

During the early 1950s, WAFL had made the switch to color. Additionally, they officially branded themselves as "WAFL-TV" on both their tv stations as well as their radio stations for the first time, despite already broadcasting on tv more than a decade earlier. Throught this era, they were known for broadcasting news than any other time.

In fact they had 10 diffrent programs just related for news alone, with names like "Morning Local News", "News at Nine" and "The Morning Show".

In the 1960s, WAFL was known for aring documentaries. Wether it would be home-made, archived or by the station themselves, they would always one everyday covering topics of history, culture, innovation and people in formats or fiction, non-fiction and ubran legends.

The early 1970s foucused on the comunity of mason county, more specifcally, Ashton (as their stations were located there). They focused their programmings into Ashton's culture, history and customs through one of their infomus program "Community Rountable."

While on the late 1970s, they aired smooth a mixture of diffrent music like jazz and jazz fusion.

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WAFL's radio station began to fade away in popularity during the 2000s due to the decline of AM signals in favor of FM. the station would continue to push on using the AM frequency regardless if it was loosing audiance. However, this was not the only choice they made that lead to them loosing popularity overtime.

During 2009, WAFL made an announcement that they would delay the transition to digital due to technicall difficulties for an indefinite. It became more apperant as time went on that they never intended to broadcast digitally. Thus, people were forced to buy digital converter kits or new tv in favor of watching more supirior channels in both content and quality.

In the beggining of 2011, the Ashton Police Department were scene shutting down the radio tower and the tv station, allthough no officall announcement was made the community theorized that it was due to its lack of compliance ti regulation and security.

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