WVLG-AM 640 Wildwood

History Of Call Letters and Formats:	WHOF-1986-MOR
	WMZY-1988-MOR
	WHOF-1988-Religious
	WVLG-2000-Adult Standards "The Voice of The Villages" "AM 640 Timeless Hits"

WVLG History
WVLG began life as WHOF. Here is a partial history.
1987-Jim Patrick moved to Lake County in 1982 after selling his coal mining companies in eastern Kentucky. He retired for three years before investing in broadcasting. The station, which is licensed to Wildwood had its studio in Leesburg The station broadcasts 24 hours a day with 1,000 watts of power. It operated under the call letters WMZY in the summer of 1988 because of the station's proposed sale. The letters WHOF were brought back when the sale was dropped. Patrick's first radio experience was with two Leesburg partners, Gene Smith and Dr. Larry Lammers, who owned WHOF-AM 1320. Patrick bought out his partners in March of 1987 and switched the dial setting to 640.

SOLD: WVLG-AM 6-7-11
WVLG-AM 640, Wildwood, has been sold for $750,000 to Villages Communications by Senior Broadcasting. Villages Communications will pay Senior Broadcasting the purchase price in five equal payments over the next five years.

WVLG Personalities

Chris English-2002-On Air Personality/Producer-Senior Broadcasting Corp.

George Rudolph-2004-Program Director/Music Director

Rob Newton

Johnny O (John Hoffman)

Bill Ashford

Frank Messina

Gary Mack (formerly at KHJ in Los Angeles)

Ron Dennis

Ron Allen

Bob Collins-Chief Weather Forecaster

Karl Loeper-Weather Forecaster

Bobby Knight

Names In WVLG History

Keith Walker-1986-Walker Heart of Florida Broadcasting

Catherine Mary Walker-1986-Walker Heart of Florida Broadcasting

Skip Diegel-General Manager-Skip left WVLG in 2007 and purchased WSBB-AM 1230

Fred Petty

Owner(s):	1986-Walker Heart of Florida Broadcasting
	1987-Jim Patrick
	2000-Catherine Mary Walker, Inc.
	2001-Senior Broadcasting Corp.
	2011-Villages Communications ($750,000)