WSVH

Infobox Radio station
name = WSVH
city = Savannah, Georgia
area = Savannah/Brunswick, Georgia
airdate = 1981
frequency = 91.1(MHz)
format = Public Radio
owner = Georgia Public Broadcasting
licensee = WSVH / WWIO-FM: Georgia Public Telecommunications Commission
WWIO (AM): Lighthouse Christian Broadcasting Corporation
erp = 100,000 watts
branding =
slogan = "Georgia Public Broadcasting for the Coast"
class = C
website =
callsign_meaning = W SaVannaH

WSVH (91.1 FM) is a 100,000 watt radio station broadcasting from Savannah, Georgia. The station's signal is repeated by WWIO-FM (88.9 FM) in Brunswick, Georgia, and during the daytime on WWIO AM (1190 AM) in St. Marys, Georgia. Together, the three stations serve the entire Georgia coastline. Their signals can be heard from Beaufort, South Carolina to Jacksonville, Florida. The station is an affiliate of the Georgia Public Broadcasting radio network. The station is one of two member stations of the GPB Radio network to have local announcers and underwriting during the day.

The station began broadcasting on April 20, 1981, the first song being played on the station at 6 am was Aaron Copland's "Fanfare for the Common Man". The station was independently run until 1988 when it joined the state-wide public radio network called "Peach State Public Radio". In the early 1990s, programming was greatly improved with the addition of WWIO AM and FM in extreme southeast Georgia and an overnight classical music format. In 1997, the station moved its studio from downtown to the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography on Skidaway Island just south of Savannah.

The station plays mostly European classical music, jazz and news from National Public Radio. This programming is in contrast to SCETV-owned WJWJ-FM 89.9, a Beaufort, South Carolina-based NPR station that is primarily news and talk formatted.

ee also

*List of radio stations in Georgia (U.S. state)

External links

* [http://www.wsvh.org/ WSVH official website]
* [http://www.gpb.org/ Georgia Public Broadcasting]
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