WVOT

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WVOT
City of license	Wilson, North Carolina
Frequency	1420 kHz
Format	Urban contemporary gospel
Power	1000 Watts (day) 500 Watts (night)
Owner

WVOT (1420 AM) is a radio station licensed to and located in Wilson, North Carolina, USA. The FCC assigned frequency is 1420 kHz. The station operates at 1000 Watts non-directional by day, and 500 watts directional at night.

[edit] Programming

The current format is urban contemporary gospel. Past formats have included talk, Carolina beach music, oldies, adult contemporary, contemporary hit radio, and block programming.

[edit] History

The original studio/transmitter building was destroyed by fire in 1992. The studios were moved to an old house on Jackson Street. A new transmitter building was erected on the original Herring Avenue tower site.

Past personalities of WVOT include Bill Bunn, Dave Edwards, Randy Steele, Pat Patterson, Andrew Scott Honeycutt, Dave Mack, Jamie Eller (Jones), Dan Mills, Bill Benjamin, Maurice Brown, Jones Fuquay, Joe George, Don Flowers, Rick Mendleson, Michael Buscemi, Mac McKee, Rick D. Rhodes, Jay Lance, Terry Tunes, Joe Overman and many others.

WVOT-FM began operations in the early 60's with 23 Kw at 106.1 MHz. The call letters were changed to WXYY in the mid 70's. In 1984, Century Communications sold WVOT-WXYY to Voyager Communications. The FM was moved to Raleigh and the call letters were changed to WRDU. A new tower site was built near Middlesex, North Carolina.