WSVU

WSVU
City North Palm Beach, Florida
Broadcast area West Palm Beach, Florida
Branding True Oldies 95.9/106.9
Frequency 960 kHz
Translator(s) 92.5 W223CJ (West Palm Beach)
95.9 W240CI (North Palm Beach)
106.9 W295BJ (Jupiter)
First air date October 13, 2003 (as WGGT)
Format Oldies
Power 2,400 watts day
1,400 watts night
Class B
Facility ID 129188
Transmitter coordinates 26°49′1.00″N 80°15′7.00″W / 26.8169444°N 80.2519444°W / 26.8169444; -80.2519444
Former callsigns WGGT (2003-2005)
WPBI (2005-2006)
Affiliations CBS Radio
Owner Vic Canales
(Vic Canales Media Group, LLC)
Webcast Listen Live
Website trueoldiesfla.com

WSVU (960 AM) is a radio station broadcasting an oldies format. Licensed to North Palm Beach, Florida, United States, the station serves the West Palm Beach area. The station is currently owned by Vic Canales, through licensee Vic Canales Media Group, LLC, and features programming from CBS Radio and Dial Global.[1]

The station is largely heard in metropolitan West Palm Beach on FM translator W240CI, at 95.9 FM. The station is also heard on Jupiter-based translator W295BJ, at 106.9 FM.

History

The station went on the air as WGGT on in 2003. On October 28, 2005, the station changed its call sign to WPBI, and on October 1, 2006 to the current WSVU.[2]

On May 14, 2014, North Palm Beach Broadcasting, Inc. announced that it had sold WSVU and its translators to JVC Media, pending FCC approval.[3] The sale closed effective September 8, 2014, at a purchase price of $850,000.

On October 6, 2014, WSVU changed formats to soft adult contemporary, branded as "95.9 The Palm".[4]

On August 15, 2017, the oldies format of WBGF moved to WSVU.[5]

By November 2017, JVC Media co-founder Vic Canales, in a deal worth $450,000, sold his ownership position in the company. Canales—better known by his on-air name "Vic Latino"—stuck a deal to swap his stake in the nine-year old company for WSVU AM in West Palm Beach. Canales exchanged his shares worth a combined $450,000 for oldies WSVU (960) and two translators: the North Palm Beach-licensed translator W240CI at 95.5 FM and the Jupiter-licensed translator W295BJ at 106.9 FM. Together the three signals were/are branded as "True Oldies Channel 95.9-106.9." The transaction was consummated on January 29, 2018. Once the deal closed, JVC Media of South Florida continued to own and operate WSWN 900 AM.[6]

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References

  1. ↑ "WSVU Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
  2. ↑ "WSVU Call Sign History". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
  3. ↑ JVC Expands Into Palm Beach Area from Radio Insight (May 14, 2014)
  4. ↑ WSVU Grows a Palm
  5. ↑ Venta, lance (August 16, 2017). "True Oldies Moves In West Palm Beach On August 15, 2017,". radioinsight. Retrieved August 16, 2017.
  6. ↑ https://radioinsight.com/headlines/120937/vic-latino-splits-jvc-broadcasting-acquires-west-palm-beach-station/
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