branding news talk 620 wvmt slogan burlington s 1 for news & talk frequency 620 khz first air date may 20 1922 format news talk power 5 000 watts class b facility id 29923 transmitter coordinates 44 32 4.00 n 73 13 15.00 w 44.5344444 n 73.2208333 w 44.5344444 ; 73.2208333 callsign meaning vermont 1 former callsigns wcax 1922 1963 affiliations abc news radio fox news radio westwood one premiere radio networks theblaze network new york yankees radio network owner sison broadcasting sister stations wxxx webcast listen live website www.newstalk620wvmt.com wvmt 620 khz is an am radio station licensed to burlington vermont and serving the champlain valley of vermont and new york . owned and operated by local businessman paul s. goldman wvmt broadcasts with a power of 5 000 watts as a class b station using a directional antenna with slightly different daytime and nighttime directional patterns in order to protect other stations on the am 620 frequency . the station has a news talk format . most of its programming consists of carrying nationally syndicated politically conservative talk shows and sports broadcasts including new york yankees baseball and university of vermont hockey and basketball . the morning show hosted by charlie papillo ernie farrar and lisa nagle is produced locally . weekday national shows include rush limbaugh glenn beck mark levin jim bohannon america in the morning and coast to coast am with george noory . 2 boston based howie carr is heard on weekday afternoons . wvmt is an affiliate of abc news radio . wvmt s easily identifiable triple towers are shown on lake champlain navigation charts . they are located in colchester vermont near mallets bay along with the studios and offices . 3 history edit wvmt is the oldest radio station in vermont 4 going on the air may 20 1922 5 as wcax under the ownership of the university of vermont uvm . 6 in its early years wcax largely operated on an experimental basis 7 and it was not until october 10 1924 that the station formally signed on . 8 wcax was run by uvm students 8 9 with most of its programming consisting of farming information from the university s extension service ; 10 although the call letters have been claimed to stand for college of agriculture extension in recognition of this service 10 the station s license was granted and the call letters assigned on may 13 1922 7 in close proximity to stations such as wcau now wpht in philadelphia and wcay now wtmj in milwaukee . 11 initially operating at 833 khz as most stations did at that time 6 it had moved to 1200 khz by 1925 12 to 1190 khz in 1926 13 to 1180 khz in 1927 14 and then back to 1200 in november 1928 . 15 by 1931 the university of vermont did not have the funds to continue its operation of wcax largely due to the need to purchase newer equipment required by the federal radio commission and on june 17 it sold the station to the burlington daily news ; 7 16 at that time the newspaper was controlled by dr. horatio nelson jackson the first person to drive across the country in a motor car . 9 the daily news relaunched wcax as a commercial station 9 on november 4 1931 ; 16 however under the terms of the sale uvm continued to broadcast its programming on the station . 7 charles hasbrook bought wcax and the daily news in 1939 ; the following year the station joined the cbs radio network . 9 the north american regional broadcasting agreement moved the station to 1230 khz in 1941 ; 17 the following year wcax moved to its current position at 620 khz 18 and the daily news was sold off 19 with hasbrook retaining the station through the wcax broadcasting corporation . 18 the 1230 frequency is now occupied by wjoy . a television station wmvt was launched on september 26 1954 ; it would be renamed wcax tv two years later . 19 by 1960 wcax had switched from cbs to nbc radio even though wcax tv 3 remains a cbs tv network affiliate . 20 hasbrook sold wcax to james broadcasting a company controlled by simon goldman that also owned wjtn in jamestown new york in 1963 and the call letters were changed to wvmt . 21 the previous call letters remain on wcax tv which is still owned by the family of hasbrook s stepson stuart t. martin jr. 19 by 1971 wvmt had a middle of the road music format . 22 the station had placed more of an emphasis on oldies by 1980 but largely remained middle of the road ; 23 by 1984 the station had shifted to an adult contemporary format 24 which by 1986 also emphasized oldies . 25 wvmt gained an fm sister station in 1990 when james broadcasting purchased 95 . 5 wxxx from atlantic ventures . 26 by 1994 wvmt had shifted its music programming entirely to oldies and had also incorporated some talk shows ; 27 by 1999 the station had formally moved to a talk format . 28 paul goldman s company sison broadcasting purchased wvmt and wxxx in 1997 . 26 29 references edit call letter origins . radio history on the web . http www.newstalk620wvmt.com programming.asp http radio locator.com 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