WSVA

WSVA (550 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Harrisonburg, Virginia, and serving the Central Shenandoah Valley.

[4] The WSVA weekday schedule begins with Early Mornings with Frank Wilt and Jim Britt.

The station was an affiliate of the NBC Red Network, carrying its dramas, comedies, news, sports, soap operas, game shows and big band broadcasts during the "Golden Age of Radio."

Allman sold his stations to a partnership of Transcontinent Television and former NBC executive Hamilton Shea in 1956, earning a significant return on his investment of 21 years earlier.

[10] But Gilmore held onto the radio stations until 1987, when he sold them to local businessman John David VerStandig.

On March 17, 1997, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced that 88 stations had been given permission to move to newly available "Expanded Band" transmitting frequencies, ranging from 1610 to 1700 kHz.

[11] A construction permit for the expanded band station was assigned the call sign WEZI on November 17, 1997.

The AM transmitter cuts its power to 1,000 watts at night to protect the nighttime signal of WGR in Buffalo, New York, and other stations on 550 AM in the Eastern United States.

[15] In addition to the main station, WSVA is relayed by an FM translator to widen its broadcast area.