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licensed to

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, broadcasting a

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format. It broadcasts on AM frequency 730 kHz and is under the ownership of

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is a Mexican and Canadian

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frequency. As WVIC, AM 730 was a

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music station in Lansing for many years (see also:

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, current sister station and former simulcast partner). WVFN is an affiliate of the

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baseball and Grand Valley State Laker football radio networks. WVFN began broadcasting as WVIC in 1965 with a Middle-of-the-Road (MOR) format, as sister station WVIC-FM programmed a

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format. WVIC and WVIC-FM adopted a full-time

format in 1968, competing with cross-town rivals WJIM and

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. WVIC and WVIC-FM would simulcast the

format full-time for most of the 1970s, eventually leading WVIC-FM to beat out its AM competitors with the advantage of a 24-hour FM stereo signal. WVIC, during this time, was licensed to operate from 6:00 am to local sunset, and aired a promotional announcement at nightly sign-off, encouraging listeners to tune to WVIC-FM. WVIC made a partial break in their simulcast with WVIC-FM in 1979, airing an

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format during the midday, while continuing to simulcast WVIC-FM for the remainder of the broadcast day. WVIC and WVIC-FM were purchased by Goodrich Broadcasting in August 1981, and WVIC was reprogrammed with Al Hamm's

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format, featuring

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music from the 1940s, along with vocal standards from the 1950s and 1960s. Along with the format change came a call-sign change to WVGO. Less than two years later in July 1983, the Music of Your Life format was abandoned, the WVIC call-sign was restored, and the station returned to a

simulcast with WVIC-FM as "The New 73 AM". The simulcast would continue until May 1992, when the current Sports Talk format was introduced under the call-sign WVFN. Goodrich Broadcasting changed the call-sign of WVIC to WAAP for a brief period in 1989, apparently to prevent cross-town rival WLNZ (The Ape 92) from acquiring the same call-sign (WLNZ later changed its call-sign to WGOR). There were no programming changes made to WVIC during this period. Between 1972-1976, the original use of the WVFN (“Voice of the Forty-Niners”) call letters were assigned to a 10-watt AM carrier current campus radio station (710 kHz) at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in Charlotte, NC.

References

Michiguide.com - WVFN History

External links

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