WDVT is a radio station

Radio station

Radio broadcasting is a one-way wireless transmission over radio waves intended to reach a wide audience. Stations can be linked in radio networks to broadcast a common radio format, either in broadcast syndication or simulcast or both...

 broadcasting a Classic Hits

Classic hits

Classic hits is a radio format which generally includes rock and pop music from 1964 to 1989. The term is sometimes erroneously used as a synonym for the adult hits format, but is more accurately characterized as a contemporary style of the oldies format...

 music format branded as "The Drive." Licensed to Rutland, Vermont, USA, the station serves the Lebanon-Rutland-White River Junction area. The station is currently owned by Pamal Broadcasting

Pamal Broadcasting

Pamal Broadcasting, Ltd. is a family-owned radio ownership with stations in medium-to-small markets in the Northeast and Florida. Based in the Albany suburb of Latham, New York, Pamal Broadcasting was founded in 1986 as Albany Broadcasting when business man James J. Morrell entered broadcast...

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History

The station was originally assigned the call letters WHWB-FM on September 24, 1990. On April 15, 1991 the station changed its call sign to WYOY. On January 14, 1994, the call sign changed to WJEN. On February 8, 2008, the country format ("Cat Country") and WJEN call sign were moved to 105.3 FM, with 94.5 FM WDVT becoming the simulcast station. After two weeks of simulcasting its former format, WDVT became a classic hits station known as "The Drive." The new format began at 6:00 AM on February 22, 2008. The first song "The Drive" played was Bachman-Turner Overdrive

Bachman-Turner Overdrive

Bachman–Turner Overdrive is a Canadian rock group from Winnipeg, Manitoba, that had a series of hit albums and singles in the 1970s, selling over 7 million albums in that decade alone. Their 1970s catalog included five Top 40 albums and six Top 40 singles...

's "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet

You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet

"You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet" is a rock song written by Randy Bachman and performed by Bachman–Turner Overdrive on the album Not Fragile. It was released as a single in 1974 with an instrumental track "Free Wheelin'" as the B-side...

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WDVT is an affiliate station of the "Floydian Slip

Floydian Slip

Floydian Slip is a weekly, one-hour syndicated radio program featuring the music of British rock band Pink Floyd.The show is created and hosted by Craig Bailey of Winooski, Vermont, who aired his first episode in January 1989 on Ithaca College's 106-VIC in Ithaca, N.Y., as a senior Television-Radio...

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The WDVT call sign was previously used in the early 1980s on a Philadelphia AM station, now operating as WURD

WURD

WURD is an AM radio station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It broadcasts at 900 kHz with a talk format primarily targeted to African-Americans, and is currently under the ownership of Levas Communications Inc.-History:...

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External links

• "Floydian Slip" website