WVTK

WVTK

City	Port Henry, New York
Broadcast area	Champlain Valley, Vermont and Essex County, New York
Branding	92-1 WVTK
Slogan	"Addison County's Radio Station"
Frequency	92.1 MHz
First air date	1982 (as WHRC-FM)
Format	Adult Contemporary
ERP	25,000 watts
HAAT	3 meters
Class	C3
Facility ID	53613
Callsign meaning	VermonT's Kiss (from the Kiss-FM CHR format)
Former callsigns	WHRC-FM (1982-1985) WKLZ (1985-1988) WHWB-FM (1988-1989) WMNM (1989-1998) WXNT (1998-1999) WLCQ (1999-2001) WJVT (2001-2003)
Affiliations	The Weather Channel
Owner	WVTK Radio, LLC
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	921wvtk.com

WVTK (92.1 FM) is a radio station that transmits a signal from a broadcast tower located in Port Henry, New York, which is near to Middlebury, Vermont. WVTK has an 25,000 watt effective radiated power signal, most of which radiates a very potent north / south signal into Vermont's Champlain Valley. The signal can be heard clearly in Middlebury, Bristol, Brandon, and Vergennes, Port Henry, Ticonderoga, Burlington and Rutland. WVTK's business offices and broadcast studios are located in the Historic Marble Works Complex in Middlebury, Vermont.

WVTK has been through many format and ownership changes during its 25 years of being on the air. The station is currently owned by Ken and Lori Barlow, who have owned the station since July 2008. The station was once oldies for a several years under the call sign of WMNM as "Oldies 92", and returned to oldies once again under the call sign of WLCQ ("Q92"). On May 1, 2007, an oldies format based on the 1960s, early 1970s, and very late 1950s returned to 92.1 as "The True Oldies Channel", a syndicated radio programming stream from ABC Radio Networks. The format change lasted for only about 16 months, as the new owners of WVTK (Vox Radio Group) flipped the station in early September 2008 to an adult contemporary (AC) music format, with more of a local emphasis on Addison County. The station went back to Classic Hits in the summer of 2014.

Throughout the years, the station has had numerous call signs including WHRC-FM, WKLZ, WHWB-FM, WMNM, WXNT, WLCQ and WJVT. The WHWB-FM and WLKZ call signs were also used in Rutland on the 94.5 frequency prior to going dark in 1993 before the 94.5 frequency was reborn as WJEN "Cat Country". The WHWB-FM call sign was originally used on 98.1 FM in Rutland, VT prior to 1984 when WHWB-FM was a 50,000 watt station with an antenna height about 300 feet below average terrain on the West Proctor Road in Rutland Town, site of where the current WDVT transmits from. The 92.1 frequency started out as a 3,000 watt facility, and was upgraded to the current 18,000 watts with additional height being added to the Port Henry tower in the early 1990s. Formats on the 92.1 frequency have included: religion, country, CHR (from 2003-2008 under 92-1 Kiss FM), adult contemporary, rock, smooth jazz (twice), and once as a part-time simulcast of New/Talk WSYB in Rutland. WVTK has also held an oldies format at three different times in its history. Clear Channel spun off WVTK to the new WVTK Radio, LLC in 2008, as it was not part of Clear Channel divesting its Burlington, Vermont stations to Vox Radio, current owners of WEAV, WEZF, WXZO & WCPV.

The full-service based Classic Hits format and positioning as "Addison County's Radio Station" has caught on well within Addison County, Vt and Essex County, New York. 92-1 WVTK also serves as the voice of Middlebury College Panther Hockey and Football, as well providing coverage for local area high school football,hockey and basketball coverage.

WVTK's current air staff includes, Ed Cwik and Rich Haskell mornings, 10-3 JJ Thompson and 3-7 Ken Gilbert & Jamie Dennis. Other programming includes The John Tesh Radio Show at night, and weekend host, Ted Richards. 92.1 WVTK also offers some unique programming on weekends including The Mike Harvey Show, on Saturday evenings. On Sundays mornings, WVTK features "Breakfast with the Beatles" 8-10am and Sunday evenings features "Time Warp" with Bill St. James 7-11pm.

By March 2012, following the transition of sister station WEZF from adult contemporary to hot adult contemporary, WVTK became the only AC station in the Burlington area. It then changed to the current Classic Hits format in July 2014.

External links

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Radio-Locator information on WVTK

Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for WVTK

Radio stations in the Champlain Valley, including Burlington, Vermont and Plattsburgh, New York

By AM frequency	550 620 960 1070 1230 1340 1390

By FM frequency	88.1 88.7 89.7 90.1 90.5 90.9 91.1 91.5 91.9 92.1 92.9 93.7 93.9 94.9 95.5 96.7 97.5 97.9 98.9 99.9 100.7 101.3 101.7 102.3 102.9 103.3 103.9 104.3 104.7 105.1 105.9 106.3 106.7 107.1 107.3 107.9

NOAA Weather Radio frequency	162.400

By callsign	KIG60 W235BE WANC WBKM WBTZ WCAT WCEL WCLX WCPV WCVT WDEV WEAV WEZF WGLY-FM WIFY WIRY WIRY-FM WIXM WIZN WJKS WJOY WKOL WKVJ WMUD-LP WNBZ-FM WNCS WOKO WOMM-LP WOXR WRMC-FM WRUV WTNN WTWK WVTK WVMT WVPS WVTX WWMP WXLQ WXLU WXXX WXZO WZXP

Defunct stations	WIPS

New York radio markets Albany–Schenectady–Troy Binghamton Buffalo–Niagara Falls Elmira–Corning Hudson Valley Nassau–Suffolk (Long Island) New York City Olean Plattsburgh Poughkeepsie Rochester Syracuse Utica–Rome Watertown Other New York radio regions Ithaca Jamestown–Dunkirk North Country Saratoga Vermont radio markets Burlington Montpelier–Barre–St. Johnsbury Rutland–White River Junction Other Vermont radio regions Northeast Kingdom See also List of radio stations in New York List of radio stations in Vermont Montreal

Radio stations in the Upper Valley, including Lebanon, New Hampshire and White River Junction, Vermont

By AM frequency	1010 1230 1400 1480 1490

By FM frequency	88.1 89.5 91.7 92.3 93.9 94.9 95.3 97.1 98.1 99.3 99.7 100.5 101.3 102.1 103.1 103.7 105.3 106.1

By callsign	WCNL WEQX WEXP WFRD WFTF WFYX WGLV WGXL WHDQ WIUV WJEN WJJR WJKS WKNE WLTN-FM WMTK WNCH WNTK-FM WOOL WRJT WRVT WSNI WSYB WTSL WTSV WVPR WVTK WVXR WWOD WXLF WXXK WYKR-FM WZLF WZRT

Defunct radio stations	910/WNHV 970/WHWB 1340/WDCR 100.1/WOOL-LP 107.3/WXND-LP

See also Burlington-Plattsburgh Montpelier-Barre Concord (Lakes Region) Northeast Kingdom Manchester Boston

Adult Contemporary radio stations in the state of New York

Stations	WAVR – Waverly WBAZ – Bridgehampton WENI – Big Flats WENY – Elmira WHUD – Peekskill WIRY – Plattsburgh WIRY-FM – Plattsburgh West WJKE – Stillwater WKJY – Hempstead WKNY – Kingston WLTB – Johnson City WLTW – New York WLZW – Utica WMRV – Dansville WMXW – Vestal WNYR – Waterloo WNYV – Whitehall WRCR – Spring Valley WRIP – Windham WRMM – Rochester WRNQ – Poughkeepsie WTOJ – Carthage WVIN-FM – Bath WVLF – Norwood WVOR - Canandaigua WWSE – Jamestown WYJB – Albany WYVS – Speculator WYXL – Ithaca WYYY – Syracuse

See also adult contemporary classic hits college country news/talk NPR oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in New York

Coordinates: 44°01′37″N 73°28′52″W / 44.027°N 73.481°W / 44.027; -73.481

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