WDEV

WDEV is a radio station based in Waterbury, Vermont, USA. WDEV broadcasts on the AM band at 550 kHz, and WDEV-FM, licensed to Warren, Vermont, broadcasts at 96.1 MHz. The stations' studios and offices are located near U.S. Route 2 in Waterbury. WDEV also operates a translator station, W243AT (96.5 FM), licensed to Barre, Vermont, and can also be heard on a privately owned translator, W270BR (101.9 FM), licensed to Island Pond, Vermont.

History

WDEV first signed on the air on July 15, 1931. It has been owned by the Squier family and their company, Radio Vermont Group, since 1935. Lloyd Squier owned the station from 1935 until his death in 1979, and passed it to his son, NASCAR broadcaster Ken Squier, who owns the station today.

In 1966, one year after Sound of Music (film) was released, the von Trapp family telecast a public concert on WDEV (AM) from the family's lodge in Stowe, Vermont.

In 1991, Squier bought WDOT in Warren and changed its calls to WDEV-FM. The FM station serves mainly to improve WDEV's coverage in the southern portion of its coverage area, particularly at night when the AM side must power down to 1,000 watts in order to protect clear-channel CBT in Grand Falls, Newfoundland and Labrador.