WVMD

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WVMD-FM 99.5 is owned by Radioactive, Inc., a subcompany of West Virginia Radio Corporation.

[edit] History

[edit] Former Translater Station Frequency

Previously, the 99.5 frequency was home to a translator of Cumberland area radio station WCBC-FM.

[edit] 2008

WVMD-FM was scheduled to come on the air sometime in early 2007, but came on the air as a station with a smooth jazz format on April 1, 2008 at 12:00 midnight. In the afternoon of that day, a man named Stu claimed to have broken into and taken the radio station hostage, playing only country music and demanding that the owner of the station bring back the John Boy and Billy show that had previously aired on WQZK, an active rock radio station West Virginia Radio Corporation purchased in December 2006 and subsequently changed the format to contemporary hit radio.

On the afternoon of April 2, it was announced that the station signed on as a station with a smooth jazz format as an April Fools' Day joke and that the station would instead be broadcasting a country music format to be known as The Wolf 99.5 FM.

[edit] External links

• Query the FCC's FM station database for WVMD
• Radio Locator information on WVMD
• West Virginia Radio Corporation

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