WVES (FM)

WVES
City Chincoteague, Virginia
Broadcast area Chincoteague, Virginia
Accomac, Virginia
Pocomoke City, Maryland
Branding 101.5 The Mix
Frequency 101.5 MHz
First air date August 29, 2016 (as WOWZ)[1]
Format Rhythmic Adult Top 40[2]
Power 5,000 watts
HAAT 72 meters (236 ft)
Class A
Facility ID 198743
Transmitter coordinates 37°51′15.0″N 75°33′19.0″W / 37.854167°N 75.555278°W / 37.854167; -75.555278
Former callsigns WOWZ (2016-2017)
WIEZ (4/2017-5/2017)
WOWZ-FM (5/2017-12/2017)[3]
Affiliations CBS Radio News
Owner GSB Broadcasting
(Jackman Holding Company, LLC)
Sister stations WCTG, WICO-FM
Webcast Listen Live
Website WVES Online

WVES (101.5 FM) is a broadcast radio station licensed to Chincoteague, Virginia, serving Chincoteague and Accomac in Virginia and Pocomoke City in Maryland.[2] WVES is owned and operated by GSB Broadcasting.[4]

WVES' programming is also heard on the audio feed of WOWZ-LP, a low-power television station in the market. The two stations run a Rhythmic Top 40 format branded as "101.5 The Mix".

History

WVES signed on for the first time on August 29, 2016 as WOWZ and began stunting with a "wheel of formats".[1] At 10 AM the next day, the station officially launched with a country music format, branded as "Wow 101-5".[1] The first song on "Wow" was "Gone Country" by Alan Jackson.[1][5] The station changed its call sign to WIEZ on April 3, 2017, and to WOWZ-FM on May 5, 2017.

On November 28, 2017, WOWZ-FM and WOWZ-LP dropped the "Wow" country format (which moved to WVES 99.3 FM Accomac, Virginia; and WICO-FM 101.1 FM Snow Hill, Maryland) and began stunting with Christmas music as "Christmas 101.5". On December 12, 2017, the station assumed the WVES call sign as part of a call sign swap. On December 26, 2017, WVES flipped to Rhythmic Adult Top 40 as "101.5 The Mix," with a emphasis on current Rhythmic contemporary hits and upbeat recurrents from the 1990s and 2000s.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Venta, Lance (August 29, 2016). "WOWZ To Wow Eastern Shore". RadioBB Networks. Retrieved August 30, 2016.
  2. 1 2 "Arbitron Station Information Profiles". Nielsen Audio/Nielsen Holdings. Retrieved August 30, 2016.
  3. ↑ "Call Sign History". Federal Communications Commission, audio division. Retrieved August 30, 2016.
  4. ↑ "WVES Facility Record". Federal Communications Commission, audio division. Retrieved August 30, 2016.
  5. ↑ "Wow 101.5 Debuts". RadioBB Networks. August 30, 2016. Retrieved September 5, 2016.
  6. ↑ Format Musical Chairs in Delmarva Radioinsight - November 28, 2017
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