WVXR

WVXR (102.1 FM) is a radio station licensed to serve Randolph, Vermont. The station is owned by Vermont Public. It is a classical music station, serving as the central Vermont outlet for Vermont Public Classical.^[2][3]

The station signed on October 25, 1982 as WCVR-FM.^[4] Originally owned by Stokes Communications and broadcasting at 102.3, the station carried a country music format, at times simulcast on sister AM station WCVR/WWWT.^[4][5][6] It moved to 102.1 in the early 1990s.

Stokes sold WCVR-FM and WWWT to Excalibur Media in 1999;^[6] Excalibur, in turn, was sold to Clear Channel Communications the following year.^[7] Clear Channel dropped the country format on January 23, 2003, replacing it with a simulcast of classic rock station WCPV from the Champlain Valley.^[8]

In January 2008, Clear Channel agreed to sell its Vermont stations to Vox Communications^[9] as part of Clear Channel's plan to divest itself of most of its smaller market radio stations. The sale was completed on July 25, 2008.^[10] Vox soon concluded that it had no interest in retaining WCVR-FM and what had become WTSJ, and reached a deal to sell the stations to Great Eastern Radio in September 2008.^[2] Great Eastern replaced the WCPV simulcast with a separate classic rock format.^[11] However, it never closed on the deal, and a year later Vox retook the station.^[2]

In March 2010, another deal to sell WCVR-FM, this time to Vermont Public Radio (VPR), was reached;^[12] Vox then shut the station down on April 1 for financial reasons.^[13] VPR returned the station to the air July 30^[14] as WVXR,^[15] carrying the VPR Classical service.^[2][3]

• Official website
• Facility details for Facility ID 63473 (WVXR) in the FCC Licensing and Management System
• WVXR in Nielsen Audio's FM station database