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| Broadcast area | Dartmouth–Lake Sunapee Region |
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| Frequency | 1230kHz |
| Branding | 94 WEEI |
| Programming | |
| Format | Sports |
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| Ownership | |
| Owner | Great Eastern Radio, LLC |
| WFYX,WGXL,WHDQ,WTSL,WWOD,WXXK | |
| History | |
First air date | 1948; 77 years ago (1948) |
Call sign meaning | Twin State Valley |
| Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 17795 |
| Class | C |
| Power | 1,000 watts unlimited |
Transmitter coordinates | 43°22′15″N72°19′42″W / 43.37083°N 72.32833°W /43.37083; -72.32833 (WTSV) |
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Public license information | |
| Webcast | Listen live |
| Website | www |
WTSV (1230AM; "94 WEEI") is a radio station broadcasting asports format. Licensed toClaremont, New Hampshire, United States, the station serves theDartmouth–Lake Sunapee Region. The station is owned by Jeffrey Shapiro's Great Eastern Radio.[2] Most of the station's programming is simulcast fromBoston sports radio stationWEEI-FM. WTSV's programming is also carried on twoFM translators, W232DN (94.3FM) in Claremont, and W233CC (94.5 FM) inWhite River Junction, Vermont.
The station's call letters stand for Twin State Valley, as the station serves theConnecticut River Valley ofNew Hampshire andVermont. It was built by the original owners ofWKBR inManchester as part of a chain of "Twin State Network" stations, which also includedWTSL inHanover,WTSA inBrattleboro, andWTSN inDover.
WTSV, along with 29 other stations in northern New England formerly owned byNassau Broadcasting Partners, was purchased at bankruptcy auction by Carlisle Capital Corporation, a company controlled byBill Binnie (owner ofWBIN-TV inDerry), on May 22, 2012. The station, and 12 of the other stations, were then acquired by Vertical Capital Partners, controlled by Jeff Shapiro; this reunited WTSV with WTSL, which Shapiro already owned via Great Eastern Radio.[3][4] After the sale's completion on November 30, 2012, WTSV dropped itssports radio format fromESPN Radio and began simulcasting WTSL, which at the time carried anews/talk format branded as "The Pulse".[5] The Vertical Capital Partners stations were transferred to Great Eastern Radio on January 1, 2013.[6][7] By March 2014, when WTSL translator W232AP moved from 94.3 to 94.5, WTSV had returned to an ESPN-supplied all-sports format, still simulcast with WTSL; its lineup also includedBoston Bruins hockey and high school sports.[8]
On July 7, 2016,Dartmouth College announced that WTSV would carryBig Green football,men's hockey andwomen's hockey broadcasts as part ofLearfield's Big Green Sports Network.[9] WTSL left the "94.5 ESPN" simulcast in June 2018, when it used a new translator to launch aclassic hip hop format; the sports programming continued on WTSV and the two existing translators, with W233CC now being fed by WHDQ 106.1-HD3.[10] In September 2020, WTSV relaunched the sports format as an affiliate of the WEEI Sports Radio Network, based out ofWEEI-FM in Boston; Great Eastern Radio already carried WEEI programming onWEEY in the adjacentKeene market.[11]