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. Owned by Jean Altidore, through licensee United Group Elite Agency Investment LLC, the station serves West Palm Beach and surrounding areas. Besides a standard analog transmission, the station also simulcasts over low-power FM translators W223CJ (92.5 FM) in West Palm Beach and W269DS (101.7 FM) in North Palm Beach. The WSVU studios are located in Palm Beach Gardens, while the station transmitter resides in West Palm Beach.

History

The station got its

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in 2003 as WGGT. On October 28, 2005, the still unbuilt station changed its

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to WPBI, and signed on the air in 2006. Owned by Intermart Broadcasting of Southwest Florida, the original power was 1,200 watts by day, 250 watts at night. The call letters were changed to WSVU on October 1, 2006; carrying an adult standards music format and featuring news updates from CBS Radio News, the station was owned by North Palm Beach Broadcasting, Inc. On May 14, 2014, North Palm Beach Broadcasting announced that it had sold WSVU and its translators to JVC Media, pending FCC approval. The sale closed effective September 8, 2014, at a purchase price of $850,000. On October 6, 2014, WSVU and its FM translator at 95.9 MHz changed their format to soft adult contemporary, branded as "95.9 The Palm". On August 15, 2017, the

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format of WBGF moved to WSVU. The station used the syndicated network known as ''

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''. By November 2017, JVC Media co-founder Vic Canales, in a deal worth $450,000, sold his ownership position in the company. Canales, better known by his on-air name "Vic Latino," stuck a deal to swap his stake in the nine-year old company for 960 WSVU in West Palm Beach. Canales exchanged his shares worth a combined $450,000 for WSVU and two translators: the North Palm Beach-licensed translator W240CI at 95.9 FM and the

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-licensed translator W295BJ at 106.9 FM. Together the three signals were branded as "True Oldies Channel 95.9-106.9." The transaction was consummated on January 29, 2018. Once the deal closed, JVC Media of South Florida continued to own and operate

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900 AM. WSVU dropped the "True Oldies" format on November 1, 2019 (which continues on W240CI and W295BJ; instead relaying

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as "Rudolph's Radio 92.7/101.7"; the stunt gave way to

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branded "The Surf 92.5/101.7" that December 25. On October 17, 2021, WSVU changed their format from classic rock to Haitian Creole language programming, branded as "Radio Elite International".Palm Beaches Surf Is Out Following Sale
Radioinsight - October 17, 2021 Effective November 16, 2021, Vic Canales sold WSVU to Jean Altidore's United Group Elite Agency Investment LLC for $1.1 million.

Translators

WSVU rebroadcasts on the following two FM translators:

Previous logos

References

External links

* * * * {{West Palm Beach Radio SVU Radio stations established in 2006 2006 establishments in Florida Haitian Creole-language mass media