WVXR

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WVXR
Frequency 102.1 MHz
BrandingVermont Public Classical
Programming
Format Classical and opera
Network Vermont Public Classical
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
History
First air date
October 25, 1982 (as WCVR-FM)
Former call signs
WCVR-FM (1982–2010)
Former frequencies
102.3 MHz (1982–1990s)
Call sign meaning
see WOXR ; Vermont
Technical information [1]
Licensing authority
 FCC
Facility ID 63473
Class C3
ERP 11,000 watts
HAAT 133 meters (436 feet)
Transmitter coordinates
 43°57′20.2″N72°36′13.9″W / 43.955611°N 72.603861°W / 43.955611; -72.603861
Links
Public license information
Webcast Listen live
Website Vermont Public Classical

WVXR (102.1 FM) is a radio station licensed to serve Randolph, Vermont. The station is owned by Vermont Public. It is a classical music station, serving as the central Vermont outlet for Vermont Public Classical. [2] [3]

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History

The station signed on October 25, 1982 as WCVR-FM. [4] Originally owned by Stokes Communications and broadcasting at 102.3, the station carried a country music format, at times simulcast on sister AM station WCVR/WWWT. [4] [5] [6] It moved to 102.1 in the early 1990s.

Stokes sold WCVR-FM and WWWT to Excalibur Media in 1999; [6] Excalibur, in turn, was sold to Clear Channel Communications the following year. [7] Clear Channel dropped the country format on January 23, 2003, replacing it with a simulcast of classic rock station WCPV from the Champlain Valley. [8]

In January 2008, Clear Channel agreed to sell its Vermont stations to Vox Communications [9] as part of Clear Channel's plan to divest itself of most of its smaller market radio stations. The sale was completed on July 25, 2008. [10] Vox soon concluded that it had no interest in retaining WCVR-FM and what had become WTSJ, and reached a deal to sell the stations to Great Eastern Radio in September 2008. [2] Great Eastern replaced the WCPV simulcast with a separate classic rock format. [11] However, it never closed on the deal, and a year later Vox retook the station. [2]

In March 2010, another deal to sell WCVR-FM, this time to Vermont Public Radio (VPR), was reached; [12] Vox then shut the station down on April 1 for financial reasons. [13] VPR returned the station to the air July 30 [14] as WVXR, [15] carrying the VPR Classical service. [2] [3]

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  2. 1 2 3 4 Vondrasket, Sandy (March 18, 2010). "Radio Station Turnover". Randolph Herald. Retrieved April 10, 2010.
  3. 1 2 "VPR Classical To Broadcast From Randolph Tower in July". Randolph Herald. May 20, 2010. Retrieved May 28, 2010.
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