WTJV (1490 AM) is a

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and serving the Daytona Beach area. WTJV is owned by J & V Communications, Inc. WTJV

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s WSBB

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. The two stations broadcast an Adult Standards

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. Both stations carry '' The Dave Ramsey Show'' on weekday afternoons. The station is an affiliate of

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History

On September 10, 1948, the station

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the air as WDLF.

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bought the station the following year and changed the

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to WJBS, reflecting the initials of university founder

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. (The university would again own the station between 1984-1987.) Stetson sold the station to Rudi Gresham's WXVQ, Inc. which changed the calls to WETO and the format to adult standards. After WETO, the station again became WJBS for a time before taking the call letters WXVQ (XV being the

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15) in 1980. In 1984, Stetson re-bought WJBS (see above) and sold it to Great Lakes Broadcasting in 1987 for $325,000, when the station adopted an

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format. Another sale came in 1991, this time for $175,000 to the Green Broadcast Group, and the station flipped to a

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format that same year.

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broadcasting group Black Crow bought the station in 2000 to simulcast its own talk station, 1230

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. WXVQ was changed to WNDA. The station was sold again in 2005 to

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broadcaster J&V Communications which changed the call sign to the current WTJV. On September 4, 2009 a truck backed into one of the tower's

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s, taking the

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down and knocking the station off the air. No one was injured, but three vehicles were damaged. The station was silent until March 2010, when J&V Communications replaced the fallen tower with an 85-foot Valcom antenna and went back on air.

References

WTJV's entry on CFL Radio

External links

FCC History Cards for WTJV
{{Daytona Beach Radio TJV Radio stations established in 1948 1948 establishments in Florida