WVOA-FM is a radio station

Radio station

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 broadcasting a Christian radio

Christian radio

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 format. Licensed to Mexico, New York

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, USA, the station serves the Syracuse area. The station is currently owned by Renard Communications Corporation, wholly owned by Craig Fox. It simulcasts WVOA 105.1 in De Ruyter as "Love Radio;" the format began on the 105.1 frequency, before moving in 2001 to 103.9, then moving back to 105.1 with a simulcast on 103.9 in May 2009, before finally settling back solely on 103.9 in August 2009. Translators broadcast on 95.3 in the city of Syracuse and 98.1 in LaFayette

LaFayette, New York

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Some non-religious programming airs on the station, including "The Wax Museum with Ronnie Dark," a program dedicated to garage rock

Garage rock

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, progressive rock

Progressive rock

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, British Invasion

British Invasion

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 music, and deep cut

Deep Cut

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s from the 1960s and 1970s, and "Hablando con Central New York" (Talking with Central New York), a Spanish language talk show hosted by Hugo Acosta.

History

The station went on the air as WUPN on 1995-04-14, before giving those calls to the current WPNY-LP

WPNY-LP

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, a television station (as its call sign indicated, a UPN

UPN

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 affiliate) in Utica

Utica, New York

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, in May 1996. Then, on 1996-05-06, the station changed its call sign to WNDR (picking up the calls previously heard on the current WSKO

WSKO (AM)

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), on 2001-04-25 to WVOA, on 2009-05-19 to WVOU (as 105.1

WOLF-FM

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 switched its calls to WVOA), and in August 2009 back to the current WVOA. The -FM suffix has been sporadically added and removed from the official call sign over the years; since there has never been, nor is their now, any AM radio or TV station with the WVOA calls, this is not a significant problem. Despite a similarity in call signs, there is no relation between this station and the Voice of America

Voice of America

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service.