WVOT (1420 AM) was a

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licensed to and located in

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, United States. The FCC assigned frequency was 1420 kHz. The station operated at 1,000 Watts non-directional by day, and 500 watts directional at night, largely on a north-facing axis.

History

WVOT signed on in June 1948. The station's call letters originally stood for "Voice of Tobaccoland". In 1984, Century Communications sold WVOT and FM sister station WXYY to Voyager Communications. The FM was moved to Raleigh and the call letters were changed to

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. A new tower site for WRDU (now

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) was built near

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. The AM facility remained in Wilson. Career Communications bought WVOT in 1990. In 1997, Career Communications sold the station to Al Taylor's Taylor Group Broadcasting. During this time, the call letters were changed to WALQ.http://archive.wilsontimes.com/archive_detail.php?archiveFile=1997/November/27/LocalNews/54901o.xml&start=0&numPer=20&keyword=wvot§ionSearch=&begindate=1%2F1%2F1987&enddate=12%2F30%2F2012&authorSearch=&IncludeStories=1&pubsection=&page=&IncludePages=1&IncludeImages=1&mode=allwords&archive_pubname=Wilson+Daily+Times%0A%09%09%09 WVOT's final format was

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. Past formats have included talk,

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, and block programming. On November 9, 2017, the

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(FCC) informed WVOT that it had received a complaint on September 9 that the station had not operated since 2011 (broadcast stations are required to return to the air within a year of going silent), and ordered it to provide information about its operations since the expiration of its most recent

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authorization on August 29, 2014. The station did not respond to the operational status inquiry, and its license was cancelled on December 19, 2017.

References

External links

Facility details for Facility ID 8778 (WVOT)
in the FCC Licensing and Management System * ( Guide to reading History Cards) (covering 1947-1980) {{Rocky Mount-Wilson Radio VOT Wilson, North Carolina Defunct radio stations in the United States Radio stations established in 1948 1948 establishments in North Carolina Radio stations disestablished in 2017 2017 disestablishments in North Carolina Defunct religious radio stations in the United States VOT