WVSP-FM (94.1
MHz, "ESPN Radio 94.1") is a
sports formatted
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
Yorktown, Virginia, United States, serving
The Peninsula,
Middle Peninsula and
Southside of
Hampton Roads
Hampton Roads is the name of both a body of water in the United States that serves as a wide channel for the James River, James, Nansemond River, Nansemond and Elizabeth River (Virginia), Elizabeth rivers between Old Point Comfort and Sewell's ...
. WVSP-FM is owned and operated by
Max Broadcast Group Holdings, LLC. WVSP's studios are located on Greenwich Road in Virginia Beach, while its transmitter is located in Newport News Park in
York County near
Colonial National Historical Park.
History
The station had originally signed on in 1975 as WYVA-FM, serving
Yorktown, Virginia with a country format. In 1986, it changed call letters to WKEZ while retaining the country format. On October 14, 1991, it began a time-brokered simulcast with then
AAA-formatted
WKOC "The Coast" in Norfolk. The next year, the simulcast was ended and the station switched to
Adult Contemporary as WXEZ, "EZ94". The transmitter tower was moved to give the station a better signal over the Tidewater area. The station was sold in the mid 1990s to Barnstable Broadcasting and switched to an
Urban Gospel music format as "Star 94.1" in August 2000.
HighBeam
/ref> Barnstable later sold its Tidewater market stations to locally-based Max Media.
On October 5, 2009, WXEZ swapped formats with WGH (1310 AM) and became a sports radio station, and at that time changed their call letters to WVSP-FM. With this change, there are now two sports stations on the FM dial in Hampton Roads. ESPN Radio
ESPN Radio, which is alternately platform-agnostically branded as ESPN Audio, is an American sports radio network and extension of the ESPN television network. It was launched on January 1, 1992, under the original banner of "SportsRadio ESPN". ...
also gained an improved coverage area much greater than when they were located on 1310 AM. The Black Gospel
Black gospel music, often called gospel music or gospel, is a genre of African-American Christian music. It is rooted in the conversion of enslaved Africans to Christianity, both during and after the trans-atlantic slave trade, starting with ...
format moved to 1310 AM.
References
External links
ESPN Radio 94.1 Online
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Sports radio stations in the United States
VSP-FM
ESPN Radio stations
Radio stations established in 1975
Max Media radio stations
1975 establishments in Virginia
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