WTSV (1230
AM; "94 WEEI") is a
radio station broadcasting a
sports format. Licensed to
Claremont, New Hampshire, United States, the station serves the
Dartmouth–Lake Sunapee Region
The Dartmouth–Lake Sunapee area of the U.S. state of New Hampshire ranges from Bradford northwest along Interstate 89 to New Hampshire's border with Vermont at the city of Lebanon. There are two distinct regions encompassed in the Dartmouth–La ...
. The station is owned by Jeffrey Shapiro's Great Eastern Radio. Most of the station's programming is simulcast from
Boston sports radio station
WEEI-FM. WTSV's programming is also carried on two
FM translators, W232DN (94.3
FM) in Claremont, and W233CC (94.5 FM) in
White River Junction, Vermont
White River Junction is an unincorporated village and census-designated place (CDP) in the New England town, town of Hartford, Vermont, Hartford in Windsor County, Vermont, Windsor County, Vermont, United States. The population was 2,528 at the 2 ...
.
The station's call letters stand for Twin State Valley, as the station serves the
Connecticut River Valley of
New Hampshire and
Vermont. It was built by the original owners of
WKBR in
Manchester as part of a chain of "Twin State Network" stations, which also included
WTSL in
Hanover,
WTSA in
Brattleboro
Brattleboro (), originally Brattleborough, is a town in Windham County, Vermont, United States. The most populous municipality abutting Vermont's eastern border with New Hampshire, which is the Connecticut River, Brattleboro is located about nor ...
, and
WTSN in
Dover
Dover () is a town and major ferry port in Kent, South East England. It faces France across the Strait of Dover, the narrowest part of the English Channel at from Cap Gris Nez in France. It lies south-east of Canterbury and east of Maidstone ...
.
History
WTSV, along with 29 other stations in northern New England formerly owned by
Nassau Broadcasting Partners, was purchased at bankruptcy auction by Carlisle Capital Corporation, a company controlled by
Bill Binnie
William Harrison "Bill" Binnie is an American industrialist, investment banker, and philanthropist, who is currently president of the Carlisle Capital Corporation,http://www.manta.com/company/mm42n0p president of the media company New Hampshire 1 ...
(owner of
WBIN-TV in
Derry
Derry, officially Londonderry (), is the second-largest city in Northern Ireland and the fifth-largest city on the island of Ireland. The name ''Derry'' is an anglicisation of the Old Irish name (modern Irish: ) meaning 'oak grove'. The ...
), on May 22, 2012. The station, and 12 of the other stations, were then acquired by Vertical Capital Partners, controlled by Jeff Shapiro; this reunited WTSV with WTSL, which is owned by Shapiro's Great Eastern Radio.
[ (updated May 23, 2012)] After the sale's completion on November 30, 2012, WTSV dropped its
sports radio format from
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". ...
and began simulcasting WTSL, which at the time carried a
news/talk format branded as "The Pulse". The Vertical Capital Partners stations were transferred to Great Eastern Radio on January 1, 2013.
By March 2014, when WTSL translator W232AP moved from 94.3 to 94.5, WTSV had returned to an ESPN-supplied all-sports format, still simulcast with WTSL; its lineup also included
Boston Bruins hockey and high school sports.
On July 7, 2016,
Dartmouth College announced that WTSV would carry
Big Green football,
men's hockey and
women's hockey broadcasts as part of
Learfield's Big Green Sports Network.
WTSL left the "94.5 ESPN" simulcast in June 2018, when it used a new translator to launch a
classic hip hop format; the sports programming continued on WTSV and the two existing translators, with W233CC now being fed by WHDQ 106.1-HD3.
In September 2020, WTSV relaunched the sports format as an affiliate of the WEEI Sports Radio Network, based out of
WEEI-FM in Boston; Great Eastern Radio already carried WEEI programming on
WEEY
WEEY (93.5 FM) is a radio station licensed to serve Swanzey, New Hampshire. The station is owned by Great Eastern Radio, LLC and serves as the Keene affiliate for WEEI-FM.
History
The WEEY license was originally allocated to Springfield, Verm ...
in the adjacent
Keene market.
References
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Claremont, New Hampshire
Radio stations established in 1948
ESPN Radio stations
Sports radio stations in the United States
1948 establishments in New Hampshire