WSVX
radio station in Shelbyville, Indiana
WSVX 1520 AM is a radio station licensed to Shelbyville, Indiana. The station broadcasts a country music format and is owned by 3 Towers Broadcasting Company, LLC. WSVX is also heard on 96.5 FM and through a translator in Shelbyville, Indiana and 106.3 FM through a translator in Hancock County, Indiana.
History
The station began broadcasting January 14, 1961, and originally held the call sign WSVL. The station was originally licensed to run 250 watts, 24 hours a day, using a directional array. In 1963, the station's daytime power was increased to 1,000 watts.
In 1990, the station's call sign was changed to WOOO. WOOO aired a country music format in the early 1990s. By 1996, the station had begun airing an oldies format. In 2000, the station's call sign was changed to WKWH. The station continued to air an oldies format, with the branding "Power Oldies". By 2004, the station's format had shifted to classic hits, and the station was branded "Classic Hits 1520". In 2007, the station's call sign was changed to WSVX, and the station began airing a CHR format.
In 2008, 3 Towers Broadcasting Company purchased W243CL 96.5 in Shelbyville for $20,000, and it began rebroadcasting the programming of WSVX. In 2011, the station's daytime power was reduced to 260 watts and the nighttime power was reduced to 4 watts, with omnidirectional daytime and nighttime operation, using a single tower, following the collapse of one of the station's three towers.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “WSVX” as radio station in Shelbyville, Indiana. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
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The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as radio station in Shelbyville, Indiana. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q17090642. Authority coordinates are 39.558, -85.770. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1520, 1961, 1963 and 1990.
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This entry incorporates text from “WSVX” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.