WRVG-LP

Lane Wells, the first faculty advisor of WRVG, served as the student Station Manager of WGTC during the 1958-1959 school year.

The weak 40 watt station was located in the Religious Education building where the current Ensor Learning Resource Center now stands.

The faint signal did not discourage devoted broadcasting students and many of them would stay in the radio station all day.

Lane Wells remembered, "I was putting in an air monitor...a Heathkit I bought, built and installed atop the control room rack cabinet.

[3] President Robert Mills budgeted Wells $10,000 from a Shell Oil Company grant to build WRVG.

The first student Station Manager, Rick Leigh, drove up to Depauw and brought it home...it weighed "tons" in comparison to today's transmitters.

In 1983, WRVG took another big step by hiring the first student Sport Director and play-by-play announcer for Tiger Athletics.

Steven Hamilton, from Glasgow, Kentucky, became the first "Voice of the Tigers" and led a two-person broadcasting team airing the school's first college football game live.

The engineer researched the question and found, to everyone's surprise, that the station's signal could be increased to 50,000 watts, making it an FM superstation in central Kentucky.

A tower was built on the limestone rich land on East Campus near the baseball field, and plans were developed to expand the station's programming to a professional, 24/7 broadcast operation.

And since the station would be on the air continuously, a full-time staff was needed who would be able to support the programming schedule when students would be away for summer break and over holidays.

ACE magazine readers voted WRVG as the best radio station and JB's Home Cookin as the best DJ in Lexington, and because of Georgetown's convenient location on the crossroads of I-64 and I-75, bands from all over would stop by the station to play live in WRVG's performance studio.

Dr. Phillip's experience and knowledge of how to run a radio station was crucial, since the FCC's deadline for the re-launch of the new WRVG was May 2005.

[3] Dr. Phillips also began teaching a new class entitled Introduction to Broadcasting, which allowed students the chance to have hands-on experience working in radio.

WRVG's expansion includes more live, local content created by students and the introduction of new media such as the internet.

It was a five-part original web series titled The Freshmen and was written and produced by WRVG advisor Jason Phillips.