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| Broadcast area | |
| Frequency | 103.7MHz (HD Radio) |
| Branding | 103.7 WEEI |
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| Language | English |
| Format | Sports radio |
| Subchannels | HD2:Rhythmic CHR |
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| History | |
First air date | October 17, 1967 (1967-10-17)[1] |
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Call sign meaning | similar toWEEI |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 71720 |
| Class | B |
| ERP | 37,000 watts |
| HAAT | 173 meters (568 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 41°34′23.4″N71°37′56.2″W / 41.573167°N 71.632278°W /41.573167; -71.632278 |
| Translator | HD2: 93.7 W229AN (Providence) |
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WVEI-FM (103.7MHz; "103.7 WEEI") is a radio station broadcasting asports talk format, largely simulcastingBoston-basedWEEI-FM.[3] The station is licensed toWesterly, Rhode Island, United States, and is owned byAudacy, Inc.[4] In addition to WEEI programming, WVEI-FM carriesProvidence Friars men's basketball,[5]Boston Bruins hockey,[6] andESPN Radio. Its transmitter is inExeter, Rhode Island; due to it being mostly a simulcast, its operations are run out of WEEI-FM's studios in Boston'sBrighton neighborhood.
The station signed on October 17, 1967,[1] as WERI-FM.[7] At one time a simulcast ofsister station WERI (1230 AM; nowWBLQ), in the mid-1970s, WERI-FM became a separate station with an automatedDrake-Chenault format called "Hit Parade". Eventually, in the early 1980s, the station switched to stereo with a livealbum rock format called "Number 1-04", consulted by Clark Smidt. By the mid-1980s, after a major power upgrade, it had become "RI 104", atop 40 station.[8] On March 9, 1987, the station changed its call sign to WWRX,[9] and the station shifted to analbum rock format.[10] Though WWRX saw some success in theNew London, Connecticut, market, management opted to focus on the largerProvidence market, and the station moved its transmitter fromWest Greenwich toExeter in 1989.[10] The call sign was modified to WWRX-FM on February 22, 1992,[9] concurrent with a brief period of time in which then-sister stationWHIM (1110 AM; nowWPMZ) discontinued itscountry format in favor ofCNN Headline News under the WWRX call sign; however, the "-FM" suffix was not removed from 103.7 when the AM station reverted to WHIM and the country format in 1993.
WWRX-FM was acquired by Radio Equity Partners in 1995;[11] Radio Equity Partners, in turn, was purchased byClear Channel Communications the following year.[12] After Clear Channel's acquisition of AMFM Broadcasting, WWRX was divested to Stephen Mindich, owner ofThe Providence Phoenix, similar publications in Boston andPortland, Maine, and Bostonmodern rock stationWFNX, in 2000.[13] Mindich switched the station to modern rock on September 7, initially as a simulcast of WFNX,[14] and later, starting in 2003, on its own.[15]
In March 2004, Mindich sold WWRX-FM to Entercom (the forerunner to Audacy, Inc.). As a result, the station canceled its local programming on March 22 and reverted to the WFNX simulcast on a temporary basis as Entercom prepared to relaunch WWRX with the WEEI simulcast.[16] The change of simulcast partners took effect on-air April 16,[17] and the station was renamed WEEI-FM.[9] The call letters were changed to WVEI-FM on September 14, 2011.[9]
WVEI-FM formerly maintained a local studio and sales office inWarwick, Rhode Island; this facility was closed by Audacy in April 2023.[18][19]
In January 2025, Audacy leased WVEI-FM's secondHD Radio channel to The Juice Broadcasting Network LLC, owned by Michael "DJ Rukiz" Costa. Costa used the subchannel, along with Diaz Holdings-ownedFM translator W229AN (93.7 FM), to launch arhythmic CHR station, "The Juice 93.7", on February 1. Ahead of the launch, WVEI-FM HD2 and W229AN wouldstunt with a rhythmic gold playlist. Costa had previously operated apirate radio station on 89.9 MHz under the "Juice" name in 2018, and was a DJ onWBRU's Sundayurban contemporary programming. The Providence market's previous rhythmic CHR station,WWKX, had dropped the format in October 2024.[20]
| Call sign | Frequency | City of license | FID | ERP (W) | Class | Transmitter coordinates | FCC info |
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| W229AN | 93.7 FM | Providence, Rhode Island | 156667 | 250 (V) 0 (H) | D | 41°49′15.4″N71°23′5.2″W / 41.820944°N 71.384778°W /41.820944; -71.384778 (W229AN) | LMS |