WVXS

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WVXS
City Romney, West Virginia
Broadcast area Hampshire County, West Virginia
Mineral County, West Virginia
Frequency 104.1 FM MHz
Branding"Maverick Rock 104"
Programming
Format Classic Rock [1]
Affiliations CBS News Radio
Weatherology
Westwood One
Ownership
OwnerSouth Branch Career and Technical Center
History
First air date
March 30, 1973 [2]
Former call signs
WJGF (1973-2000)
WVSB (2000-2018) [3]
Technical information
Facility ID 71665
Class A
Power 100 Watts
HAAT 238 meters (781 ft)
Transmitter coordinates
39°18′56.0″N78°43′4.0″W / 39.315556°N 78.717778°W / 39.315556; -78.717778
Links
Webcast WVXS Webstream
Website WVXS Online

WVXS is a Classic Rock formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Romney, West Virginia, United States, serving Hampshire and Mineral counties in West Virginia. [1] [4] WVXS is owned and operated by South Branch Career and Technical Center. [5] [6]

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Change in ownership

George Park, Jr., the "longtime engineer and teacher" of the West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and Blind's broadcasting education class filed for retirement after 47 years with the school. [7] The school donated the station to the South Branch Career and Technical Center, located in nearby Petersburg, West Virginia. [5] [8] The school and Park cited "declining student interest and increasing standards" as other reasons for the station's donation. [5] [7] The station rebranded as "104.1 The Maverick" and later "Maverick Country 104". [5] South Branch Career and Technical Center changed the station's callsign on October 19, 2018, to WVXS from its previous WVSB, which had stood for "West Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind". [3]

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References

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  2. Broadcasting Yearbook 2010 (PDF). ProQuest, LLC/Reed Publishing (Nederland), B.V. 2010. p. D-591. Retrieved November 4, 2018.
  3. 1 2 "Call Sign History". Federal Communications Commission, audio division. Retrieved November 4, 2018.
  4. "WVXS Facility Record". Federal Communications Commission, audio division. Retrieved November 4, 2018.
  5. 1 2 3 4 Venta, Lance (August 17, 2018). "Station Sales Week Of 8/17". RadioInsight/RadioBB Networks. Retrieved November 4, 2018.
  6. "WVXS Facility Record". Federal Communications Commission, audio division. Retrieved November 4, 2018.
  7. 1 2 King, Jim (March 28, 2018). "Retirement dialing up change for WVSB radio". Hampshire Review . Romney, West Virginia . Retrieved November 4, 2018.
  8. DeWitt, Ed (July 3, 2018). "Familiar, improved 104.1 is on the way". Hampshire Review . Ogden Newspapers . Retrieved November 4, 2018.