WVXG
Coordinates: 40°35′15.00″N 82°48′20.00″W / 40.5875000°N 82.8055556°W
City | Mount Gilead, Ohio |
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Broadcast area | Mid-Ohio |
Branding | Classic Rock 95X WVXG |
Slogan | Marion's Classic Rock |
Frequency | 95.1 MHz |
First air date | March 8, 1991 (as WOHO) |
Format | Classic rock |
ERP | 6,000 watts |
HAAT | 100 meters (328 feet) |
Class | A |
Facility ID | 74300 |
Transmitter coordinates | 40°35′15.00″N 82°48′20.00″W / 40.5875000°N 82.8055556°W |
Callsign meaning | Voice of Xavier in Mount Gilead (former simulcast of WXVU; both stations were previously owned and operated by Xavier University) |
Former callsigns | WOHO (1991-1993)[1] |
Affiliations | ABC Radio Networks |
Owner |
Brent Casagrande (Delmar Communications, Inc.) |
Sister stations | WDLR, WQTT |
Webcast | Listen Live |
Website | 951rocks.com |
WVXG (95.1 FM, "Classic Rock 95X") is a radio station licensed to serve Mount Gilead, Ohio, United States. The station is owned by Brent Casagrande, through licensee Delmar Communications, Inc., and serves the Mid-Ohio area.
WVXG broadcasts a classic rock music format.[2] The majority of the programming comes from the satellite-fed The Classic Rock Experience from ABC Radio Networks.
History
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The station was assigned the call letters WOHO on March 8, 1991. On October 22, 1993, the station changed its call sign to the current WVXG.[1] Throughout the 1990s and into the early 2000s, WVXG was owned by Xavier University and was a member of the "X-Star Radio Network," which featured a variety of programs, including news, talk, jazz, and adult standards.[3] This multi-state network was originally based at flagship WVXU in Cincinnati, even as WVXU had adopted a separate program schedule.[4][5]
One year before the sale of WVXU and the shutdown of the X-Star Radio Network, Xavier spun off WVXG to ICS Holdings, Inc. for around $385,000.[6] ICS Holdings entered a licensing agreement with the Christian Voice of Central Ohio, who broadcast a Contemporary Christian music format from 2004 through March 2008 as "95.1 The River," patterned directly after WCVO. Christian Voice of Central Ohio continues the format online and on Chillicothe, Ohio-licensed WZCP (also a former X-Star affiliate as WVXC).
After the lease agreement with the Christian Voice of Central Ohio ended in March 18, 2008,[7] ICS flipped WVXG to a satellite-based classic rock format.
ICS Holdings sold WVXG, along with WQTT and WDLR, to Delmar Communications, Inc. effective December 30, 2014. The price for the transaction was $250,000.
References
- 1 2 "WVXG Call Sign History". FCC Media Bureau CDBS Public Access Database.
- ↑ "Station Information Profile". Arbitron. Archived from the original on March 1, 2010.
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20030608141927/http://www.wvxu.org/html/wvxg.html
- ↑ http://tenwatts.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-x-star-radio-network.html
- ↑ http://enquirer.com/editions/1998/10/11/loc_wvxu11.html
- ↑ http://dev.broadcastingcable.com/news/news-articles/changing-hands/100682
- ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20081017084720/http://www.951theriver.com/index.html
External links
- Query the FCC's FM station database for WVXG
- Radio-Locator information on WVXG
- Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for WVXG