WDUV
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Soft adult contemporary | |
Subchannels | HD2: Country music |
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Affiliations | Premiere Networks |
Ownership | |
Owner |
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History | |
First air date | September 19, 1969 |
Former call signs | WGUL-FM (1969–81) WPSO (1981–83) WGUL-FM (1983–95) WTBT (1995–99) |
Call sign meaning | Phonetic sound-alike to dove |
Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
Facility ID | 1178 |
Class | C1 |
ERP | 33,000 watts |
HAAT | 458 meters (1,503 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 28°10′59″N 82°46′05″W / 28.183°N 82.768°W |
Links | |
Public license information | |
Webcast | Listen live Listen live (via Audacy) |
Website | www |
WDUV (105.5
WDUV has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 33,000 watts. It broadcasts in the HD Radio hybrid format. WDUV carries a country music format on its HD2 channel.[citation needed]
History
Initially
In the early-1990s, WDUV relocated its frequency to 103.5 FM, to improve its coverage area in the Tampa Bay area. By the mid-1990s, WDUV would be acquired by Jacor Broadcasting (since absorbed by Clear Channel Communications), who relocated its studios to St. Petersburg. As recently as 1997, WDUV continued to play about 50% instrumental music and 50% vocals.[3]
On April 5, 1999, at Midnight, WDUV swapped its frequency with classic rock station WTBT, moving from 103.5 to 105.5 FM. However, both frequencies would retain their transmitting locations and cities of license. After the swap, WDUV became licensed to New Port Richey with transmitting facilities in Holiday, while WTBT, whose transmitter was located in Riverview, became licensed to Bradenton. (WTBT, now WFUS, has since been relicensed to Gulfport.) While the new WDUV's transmitter is more powerful, it is also further away from the population center of the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater market than WDUV's former transmitter. Because WDUV is aimed at an older audience, Cox saw more potential gain with WTBT at 103.5.[4]
Shortly after the swap, Clear Channel sold WDUV to its present owner,
Current programming and format evolution
Currently, the station specializes in playing an oldies-based
The station's former so-called "super-soft" format featured one or two smooth jazz instrumentals each hour, as a reminder of its past instrumental "beautiful music" format. With the purge of the "adult standards" artists from the station's playlist and the addition of some more recent and more upbeat songs, the smooth jazz instrumentals were also dropped. The station rarely plays any song recorded after 2000, to avoid overlapping with co-owned adult contemporary music station WWRM, whose format is more contemporary.
WDUV is owned by
WDUV's popular morning show, which airs from 6 to 10 a.m., was hosted by radio personality Dick Ring until he left the station on April 27, 2012.
References
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for WDUV". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ "WDUV-FM 105.5 MHz - New Port Richey, FL". Radio-locator.com. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
- ^ Knopper, Steve (1997-06-21). "Beautiful Music Gone, Not Forgotten". Billboard.
- ^ "FM stations trade places, not styles", St. Petersburg Times (April 6, 1999)
- ^ "Wduv.com: Inside wduv.com Dick Ring". Archived from the original on 2006-03-26. Retrieved 2006-04-26.
External links
- Official website
- WDUV in the FCC FM station database
- WDUV in Nielsen Audio's FM station database