[4] It was an NPR member station and aired All Things Considered along with its own local news and community programming and jazz music.
[2] Throughout its decade on the air, WVSP struggled with a chronic shortage of community support; the station's potential audience was just barely large enough for it to be viable.
[5] As a result, and in order to move closer to the center of its listening audience, the station embarked in September 1983 on a campaign to relocate its studios from Warrenton to Rocky Mount, where it hoped to obtain a wider volunteer base and increased community and corporate support.
[6] The move was in part funded by a $25,000 challenge grant from the Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation of Winston-Salem that required WVSP to raise the remaining $155,000.
[6] Abbott Laboratories, which owns a facility in Rocky Mount, donated $5,000 in support of the campaign,[4] as did Belk Tyler; Hardee's made a $20,000 contribution.