WVIE (107.3

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), branded on-air as K-LOVE, is a

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in Charlotte Amalie,

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. The station is currently owned by

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and carries network programming from

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, EMF's main

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music network.

Ownership

The station, then known as WVGN, was acquired by

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(then known as LKK Group; Keith Bass, President) from Calypso Communications in 2002. While Caribbean Broadcasting Network is a company whose television stations are affiliates of commercial networks, WVGN was operated under a separate arm, Caribbean Community Broadcasting, and solicited and accepted donations from listeners, as would most other NPR members. Caribbean Broadcasting Network reached a deal to sell WVGN to R.J. Watkins, owner of WHPR-FM and operator of W33BY-D in

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, on August 7, 2014; the sale was completed on February 17, 2015, accompanied by a call sign change to WVIE. WVGN's NPR programming continued through March 15, 2015; Watkins replaced this programming with contemporary music and

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. Since November 7, 2015, WVIE's signal was simulcast on W33BY's 3rd subchannel. Until then, it had been a SD simulcast of 33.1, 33.2 and 33.4, however, are still simulcasting W33BY-DT1 in SD.

Sale to Educational Media Foundation

On March 14, 2023, it was announced that the

was buying WVIE for $150,000. The station would be EMF's second located in a U.S. territory and would switch to the company's

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network. The sale was completed on May 26, 2023.

References

External links

WVIE official website
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