WVES (101.5
FM) is a
broadcast
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radio station
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licensed to
Chincoteague, Virginia, serving
Chincoteague and
Accomac in
Virginia
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and
Pocomoke City in
Maryland
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.
WVES is owned and operated by GSB Broadcasting.
WVES' programming was also heard on the audio feed of "
Franken-FM
This is a list of low-power television stations (LPTV) in the United States, transmitting on VHF channel 6, which operate as radio stations capable of being picked up by standard FM receivers. These stations are colloquially known as "Franken FMs" ...
" WOWZ-LP, VHF analog channel 6, a low-power television station in the market. This could also be heard on an FM radio tuned to 87.7 MHz, since the audio portion of the analog signal lied at 87.75 MHz.
WOWZ is currently silent with a permit to switch to digital.
The two stations run an
adult hits format branded as "96.5 & 101.5 CTG".
History
WVES signed on for the first time on August 29, 2016 as WOWZ and began
stunting with a "wheel of formats".
At 10 AM the next day, the station officially launched with a
country music
Country (also called country and western) is a genre of popular music that originated in the Southern and Southwestern United States in the early 1920s. It primarily derives from blues, church music such as Southern gospel and spirituals, ...
format, branded as "Wow 101-5".
The first song on "Wow" was "
Gone Country" by
Alan Jackson
Alan Eugene Jackson (born October 17, 1958) is an American singer-songwriter. He is known for blending traditional honky-tonk and mainstream country pop sounds (for a style widely regarded as "neotraditional country"), as well as penning many o ...
.
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
WICO-FM (101.1 FM) is a radio station licensed to Snow Hill, Maryland, United States. The station serves the Delmarva Peninsula. The station is currently owned by A. Wray Fitch and Greg Bojko, through licensee GSB Media, LLC.
History
From ap ...
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 calan bel sign swap. On December 26, 2017, WVES flipped to Rhythmic Adult Top 40 as "101.5 The Mix," with an emphasis on current Rhythmic contemporary hits and upbeat recurrents from the 1990s and 2000s.
On October 26, 2018, WVES changed their format from rhythmic adult top 40 to a simulcast of adult hits-formatted
WCTG
WCTG is an adult hits formatted Broadcasting, broadcast radio station licensed to West Pocomoke, Maryland and serving the Salisbury, Maryland area. WCTG is owned and operated by GSB Broadcasting.
History
WCTG signed on in 2004. On March 7, 2016, ...
96.5 FM West Pocomoke, Maryland.
WCTG Completes Salisbury Move-in; Adds New Virginia Simulcast
Radioinsight - October 26, 2018
References
External links
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2016 establishments in Virginia
Radio stations established in 2016
VES (FM)
Adult hits radio stations in the United States