WVBI-LP

WVBI-LP
City Beaver Island, Michigan
Broadcast area St. James, Michigan
Branding "WVBI"
Slogan "The Voice of Beaver Island"
Frequency 100.1 FM MHz
First air date June, 2015
Format Variety[1]
Power 100 Watts
HAAT 21.4 meters (70 ft)
Class L1
Facility ID 194978
Transmitter coordinates 45°43′45.0″N 85°31′39.0″W / 45.729167°N 85.527500°W / 45.729167; -85.527500
Callsign meaning W Voice (of) Beaver Island
Former callsigns WVBI-LP (2014-Present)[2]
Affiliations Feature Story News
Public Radio Exchange
WFMT Radio Network
Owner Preservation Association of Beaver Island
Webcast WVBI-LP Webstream
Website WVBI-LP Online

WVBI-LP is a Variety formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Beaver Island, Michigan, serving St. James, Michigan.[1] WVBI-LP is owned and operated by the Preservation Association of Beaver Island, which also operates the Beaver Island Community Center.[3]

Programming

With some breaks for special music programs, the station airs "The Cottage Mix" from 6am to 10pm, 7 days a week with hourly news during weekday drive times and at noon and 3pm. The Cottage Mix consists of "Pop, Oldies, Country, Celtic, Beaver Island Favorites and a little bit of jazz".[4] From 10pm to 6am, 7 nights a week, WVBI-LP airs "Jazz Night Watch", featuring various styles of Jazz music.[4]

On Saturdays starting at 6am the station broadcasts "Inside Europe",[5] "Living Planet",[6] and "WorldLink",[7] all from Deutsche Welle.[4] It repeats the first two of these programs at the same time Sunday morning and broadcasts "Interfaith Voices" at 8am. On most Saturday mornings WVBI presents a locally produced countdown show it calls "The Top Ten + Five" and repeats the program Wednesday evenings at 7pm. The station has special music programming on the weekends. On Saturday evenings at 5:00 p.m. it presents a live locally produced country music show called Country Classics hosted by Sheri Timsak. This is followed at 7:00 p.m. by the Retro Album Chart Show hosted by Titus Jennings and at 9:00 p.m. by Rockin' the Boat with Mark Beltaire, which runs until 11:00 p.m. That's followed by two hours of classic rock in a special Saturday Night Classic Rock Cottage Mix.

On Sunday mornings starting at 9:00 a.m. the station provides a chill soundtrack with its Sunday Morning Cottage mix, which includes smooth jazz, some soul and pop with killer jazz licks and more. That runs until 1:00 p.m. when the Milwaukee Symphony takes to the air on the WFMT radio network from PRX. That's followed at 3:00 p.m. by the station's signature Cottage Mix. Sunday evening at 5pm WVBI presents another live locally produced show called Sunday Night Oldies hosted by Phil Becker. That's followed at 7:00 p.m. by "The International Americana Music Show",[8] "Celtic Connections" at 8:00 p.m.,[9] and "Full Moon Hacksaw"[10] at 9:00 p.m. all are from Public Radio Exchange (PRX).[4] On Friday nights at 11pm WVBI presents "The Midnight Special", hosted by Beaver Island seasonal resident Rich Warren, from the WFMT Radio Network.[4][11]

The station also presents occasional locally produced radio theater programs, special news programs and coverage of community events.

Technical Facilities

The station recently relocated its transmitter to a site on The Kings Highway fairly near the geographic center of the island. The station uses a two-bay circularly polarized antenna driven by a Nautel VS-300LP transmitter. Program audio is delivered to the transmitter site on a two hop Ubiquiti NanoBridge link using a Barrix audio over IP encoder/decoder pair.

References

  1. 1 2 "Arbitron Station Information Profiles". Nielsen Audio/Nielsen Holdings. Retrieved July 15, 2015.
  2. ↑ "Call Sign History". Federal Communications Commission, audio division. Retrieved July 15, 2015.
  3. ↑ "WVBI-LP Facility Record". Federal Communications Commission, audio division. Retrieved July 15, 2015.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 "WVBI Broadcast Schedule". WVBI. Retrieved May 23, 2016.
  5. ↑ "Inside Europe - DW.com". Deutsche Welle. Retrieved January 8, 2016.
  6. ↑ "Living Planet - DW.com". Deutsche Welle. Retrieved January 8, 2016.
  7. ↑ "WorldLink - DW.com". Deutsche Welle. Retrieved January 8, 2016.
  8. ↑ "PRX >> Series >> The International Americana Music Show". PRX. Retrieved January 8, 2016.
  9. ↑ "PRX >> Series >> Celtic Connections". PRX. Retrieved January 8, 2016.
  10. ↑ "PRX >> Series >> Full Moon Hacksaw". PRX. Retrieved January 8, 2016.
  11. ↑ "The Midnight Special". WFMT Radio Network. Retrieved January 8, 2016.
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