WVXG (95.1 FM, "Classic Rock 95X") is a

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to serve

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. The station is owned by Brent Casagrande, through licensee Delmar Communications, Inc., and serves the Mid-Ohio area. WVXG broadcasts a

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music format. The station is the local affiliate for ''

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'', while the majority of the programming comes from the satellite-fed The Classic Rock Experience from

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History

The station was assigned the call letters WOHO on March 8, 1991. On October 22, 1993, the station changed its call sign to the current WVXG. Throughout the 1990s and into the early 2000s, WVXG was owned by

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and was a member of the "X-Star Radio Network," which featured a variety of programs, including news, talk, jazz, and adult standards. This multi-state network was originally based at flagship

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in Cincinnati, even as WVXU had adopted a separate program schedule. One year before the sale of WVXU and the shutdown of the X-Star Radio Network, Xavier spun off WVXG to ICS Holdings, Inc. for around $385,000. ICS Holdings entered a licensing agreement with the Christian Voice of Central Ohio, who broadcast a

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music format from 2004 through March 2008 as "95.1 The River," patterned directly after

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. Christian Voice of Central Ohio continues the format online and on Chillicothe, Ohio-licensed

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(also a former X-Star affiliate as WVXC). After the lease agreement with the Christian Voice of Central Ohio ended on March 18, 2008, ICS flipped WVXG to a satellite-based classic rock format. ICS Holdings sold WVXG, along with WQTT and

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, to Delmar Communications, Inc. effective December 30, 2014. The price for the transaction was $250,000.

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* VXG Radio stations established in 1994 Classic rock radio stations in the United States Mount Gilead, Ohio 1994 establishments in Ohio {{Ohio-radio-station-stub