WSVG was a
broadcast
Broadcasting is the distribution of audio or video content to a dispersed audience via any electronic mass communications medium, but typically one using the electromagnetic spectrum ( radio waves), in a one-to-many model. Broadcasting began ...
radio station licensed to
Woodstock, Virginia, serving
Woodstock and
Shenandoah County, Virginia
Shenandoah County (formerly Dunmore County) is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 United States Census, the population was 44,186. Its county seat is Woodstock. It is part of the Shenandoah Valley region of Virgini ...
.
WSVG was last owned and operated by Shenandoah Valley Group, Inc.
Its license was cancelled on October 1, 2019.
[Call Sign History](_blank)
fcc.gov. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
History
Peggy Boston and Joan Anderson, two retired ''
Washington Star'' reporters, formed Hometown Radio to purchase the then-WAMM from Grass Roots Broadcasting in May 2002. They instituted an all-local
adult standards format branded "Radio Retro". However, the older audience made advertising difficult to sell, and the station went silent on May 2, 2005 from mounting debts. The standards continued for a time on Hometown's other property,
WSVG (790 AM). WAMM was sold to
Harrisonburg businessman Jason Rodriguez, who launched a
tropical format as "Radio Latino" in October 2005. The station went silent again on October 7, 2008 citing financial reasons, and was continuously silent until November 2009 except for a 10-day period in September of that year; licenses are deleted by law after one continuous year of silence. In December 2009, WAMM was sold to Shenandoah Valley Group, Inc., who had also purchased WSVG and used WAMM to simulcast its news-talk format.
Shenandoah Valley Group took WAMM silent on December 3, 2014, citing technical issues. In the following three years, the station only broadcast in July–August 2015, after which it was taken silent again due to further technical issues, and September 2016, when Shenandoah Valley Group reported financial distress. WAMM most recently resumed operations on September 16, 2017, and was once again simulcasting WSVG.
On January 16, 2018, the station was granted a
construction permit
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for
FM translator W293DH on 106.5 FM in Woodstock, pursuant to the
Federal Communications Commission's AM revitalization program. On September 30, 2019, its call sign was changed to WSVG, the same day its license was surrendered.
, fcc.gov. September 30, 2019. Retrieved October 3, 2019. Its sister station, AM 790, took the WAMM call sign.
References
External link
FCC Station Search Details: DWSVG
(Facility ID: 16000)
Defunct radio stations in the United States
1981 establishments in Virginia
Radio stations established in 1981
SVG (AM)
Radio stations disestablished in 2019
2019 disestablishments in Virginia
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