WAVP

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WAVP
Simulcasts WHNR, Cypress Gardens
Broadcast area Sebring area
Frequency 1390 kHz
BrandingBoss Hogg Radio
Programming
Format Adult hits
Affiliations Fox News Radio
Premiere Networks
Ownership
Owner
  • Ferris S. Waller, Sr.
  • (Walco Enterprises, LLC)
WHNR, WKFL, WWAB, WZHR
History
First air date
October 1, 1970;54 years ago (1970-10-01)
Former call signs
  • WAPR (1970–1993)
  • WKHF (1993–1994)
  • WAVP (1994–2006)
  • WFHT (2006–2020)
Call sign meaning
Avon Park
Technical information [1]
Licensing authority
 FCC
Facility ID 72684
Class D
Power
  • 1,000 watts day
  • 77 watts night
Transmitter coordinates
 27°37′8″N81°29′27″W / 27.61889°N 81.49083°W / 27.61889; -81.49083
Translator(s) 107.5 W298BU (Avon Park)
Links
Public license information
Webcast Listen live
Website www.bosshoggradio.com

WAVP (1390 AM) is a radio station licensed to Avon Park, Florida. WAVP is owned by Ferris Waller, through licensee Walco Enterprises, LLC, and operates with 1,000 watts day and 77 watts at night. The station is known on-air as Boss Hogg Radio.

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History and current status

WAVP began broadcasting October 1, 1970. In 1992, the owner was Andrew Banas who bought the station for $100,000 in September 1990. [2] The station went silent on October 1, 2009, according to FCC records, but was resurrected in early 2010.

WFHT until January 2015 aired a nationally syndicated talk show lineup that included Neal Boortz, Michael Savage, Mark Levin, and Phil Hendrie Mondays through Fridays, and specialty talk shows on the weekends. WFHT was also an affiliate of the Tampa Bay Rays baseball team, the Tampa Bay Lightning hockey team, and NFL and NCAA football games; the former talk station also featured local talk shows. In 2015, WFHT began broadcasting Florida A&M Rattlers football games via the "Rattler Football Network".

From 2015 to 2020, the station broadcast an urban AC–urban contemporary gospel format. This ended when the station was sold to Walco Enterprises and began simulcasting the other three Boss Hogg Radio stations owned by the company, reclaiming the WAVP call sign it had used for most of its history until the mid-2000s.

Its frequency was previously occupied by another radio station also had the call letters of WAVP. [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]

Translators

In addition to the main station, WAVP is relayed by an FM translator.

Call sign Frequency City of license FID ERP (W) Class FCC info
W298BU107.5 FM Avon Park, Florida 138526215D LMS

References

  1. ↑ "Facility Technical Data for WAVP". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ↑ "WAPR-AM". RadioYears.com. Retrieved December 29, 2010.
  3. ↑ Leffingwell, Robert Down (1983). "WAVP". Causes and Indicators of Commercial AM Radio Station Failure: 1962-1976 (Dissertation). The Ohio State University. p. 501. ProQuest   303192463.
  4. ↑ "Station on air". Tampa Tribune. Tampa, Florida. November 4, 1957. p. 2. Retrieved April 24, 2025– via Newspapers.com.
  5. ↑ "Houses for sale". Tampa Tribune. Tampa, Florida. February 27, 1961. p. 31. Retrieved April 24, 2025– via Newspapers.com.
  6. ↑ "News service files suit". Tampa Tribune. Tampa, Florida. October 17, 1963. p. 20. Retrieved April 24, 2025– via Newspapers.com.
  7. ↑ "Radio station back on air". Tampa Tribune. Tampa, Florida. June 24, 1966. p. 14. Retrieved April 24, 2025– via Newspapers.com.
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