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City | Petersburg, Virginia |
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Broadcast area | Metro Petersburg |
Branding | "ESPN 950" |
Slogan | "Richmond's Home of the Redskins" |
Frequency | 1240 kHz |
First air date | 1945 |
Format | Sports radio |
Power | 1,000 Watts day and night |
Class | C |
Facility ID | 60474 |
Transmitter coordinates | 37°14′1.0″N 77°22′36.0″W / 37.233611°N 77.376667°W |
Callsign meaning | The People's Station |
Former callsigns | WSSV (1945-1986) WPLZ (1986-1989) WGCV (1989-2003) WROU (2003-2007) |
Affiliations | ESPN Radio |
Owner |
Urban One (Radio One Licenses, LLC) |
Sister stations | WCDX, WKJM, WKJS, WPZZ |
Website | http://www.espn950am.com/ |
WTPS is a sports radio formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Petersburg, Virginia, serving Metro Petersburg. WTPS is owned and operated by Urban One. The station has broadcast the sports programming of WXGI Richmond since Urban One's purchase of that station on May 1, 2017, in order to give WXGI a metro Richmond FM signal.
On July 9, 2016, WTPS began relaying its signal on an FM translator to widen its broadcast area. The translator is fed by WCDX-HD2.