WVOV

WVOV (1480 AM) is a radio station licensed to serve Bridgeport, Alabama, USA. The station is owned by Anthony Bono, through licensee Partners Media Investments LLC. It broadcasts a sports format with programming from CBS Sports Radio.

History

On April 15, 1998, longtime-owner of Bridgeport Broadcasting Company, the licensee for this station, then known as WBTS, Roy C. McCloud died. In June 1998, control of the company passed involuntarily to Remal J. McCloud and Darren W. McCloud, the joint executors of his estate. The Federal Communications Commission approved the transfer on July 9, 1998, and the transaction was formally consummated on August 10, 1998. Later that year in Atlanta, Georgia, they used the WBTS callsign until August 2010.

In July 1998, KEA Radio Inc. (Ronald H. Livengood, president) reached an agreement to acquire WBTS from Remal J. McCloud and Darren W. McCloud. The station sold for a reported $5,000. The deal was approved by the FCC on October 20, 1998, and the transaction was consummated on November 2, 1998. Under the new ownership, this station changed its call letters to WKEA on November 13, 1998.