WVOT

Radio station in Wilson, North Carolina (1948–2017)

35°44′8.6″N 77°53′0.9″W / 35.735722°N 77.883583°W / 35.735722; -77.883583

WVOT (1420 AM) was a radio station licensed to and located in Wilson, North Carolina, United States. The FCC assigned frequency was 1420 kHz. The station operated at 1,000 Watts non-directional by day, and 500 watts directional at night, largely on a north-facing axis.

History

WVOT signed on in June 1948.^[1] The station's call letters originally stood for "Voice of Tobaccoland".

In 1984, Century Communications sold WVOT and FM sister station WXYY to Voyager Communications. The FM was moved to Raleigh and the call letters were changed to WRDU. A new tower site for WRDU (now WTKK) was built near Middlesex, North Carolina. The AM facility remained in Wilson.

Career Communications bought WVOT in 1990.^[2] In 1997, Career Communications sold the station to Al Taylor's Taylor Group Broadcasting. During this time, the call letters were changed to WALQ.^[3]

WVOT's final format was urban contemporary gospel. Past formats have included talk, Carolina beach music, oldies, adult contemporary, contemporary hit radio, and block programming.

On November 9, 2017, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) informed WVOT that it had received a complaint on September 9 that the station had not operated since 2011 (broadcast stations are required to return to the air within a year of going silent), and ordered it to provide information about its operations since the expiration of its most recent special temporary authority authorization on August 29, 2014.^[4] The station did not respond to the operational status inquiry, and its license was cancelled on December 19, 2017.^[5]

References

^ Broadcasting & Cable Yearbook 1999 (PDF). 1999. p. D-332. Retrieved December 22, 2017.
^ "Magic 95.9FM, THE Music Lovers Station, Plymouth, NC". Retrieved June 16, 2010.
^ http://archive.wilsontimes.com/archive_detail.php?archiveFile=1997/November/27/LocalNews/54901o.xml&start=0&numPer=20&keyword=wvot&sectionSearch=&begindate=1%2F1%2F1987&enddate=12%2F30%2F2012&authorSearch=&IncludeStories=1&pubsection=&page=&IncludePages=1&IncludeImages=1&mode=allwords&archive_pubname=Wilson+Daily+Times%0A%09%09%09 ^{[dead link]}
^ Doyle, Peter H. (November 9, 2017). "In re: WVOT(AM), Wilson, NC Facility ID No. 8778 Operational Status Inquiry" (PDF). CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved December 22, 2017.
^ "Broadcast Actions" (PDF). Federal Communications Commission. December 22, 2017. Retrieved December 22, 2017.

External links

FCC Station Search Details: DWVOT (Facility ID: 8778)
FCC History Cards for WVOT (covering 1947-1980)

Radio stations in the Rocky Mount–Wilson area of North Carolina

By AM frequency

760
1390
1490

By FM frequency

LPFM	97.3 100.3 101.1 106.9
Translators	102.1 102.7 105.5

By call sign

Defunct

WGTM (590 AM)
WVOT (1420 AM)
WVSP (90.9 FM)

Radio stations in Eastern North Carolina: Elizabeth City–Nags Head; Fayetteville; Greenville-New Bern-Jacksonville; Rocky Mount-Wilson; Wilmington