WLVP
| City | Gorham, Maine |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Portland, Maine |
| Branding | The Memories Station |
| Frequency | 870 kHz |
| First air date | March 3, 1980 |
| Format | Oldies |
| Power | 10,000 watts (daytime) 1,000 watts (nighttime) |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 24994 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 43°39′46″N 70°29′41″W / 43.66278°N 70.49472°W |
| Callsign meaning | Liberal Voice of Portland (previous format) |
| Former callsigns | WDCI (1980–1982) WASY (1982–1986) WJBQ (1986–1989) WKZN (1989–1990) WLAM (1990–2001) WMTW (2001–2004) |
| Owner | Robert Bittner (Blue Jey Broadcasting Co.) |
| Sister stations | WLAM, WJTO, WJIB, WJYE |
WLVP (870 AM) is a radio station broadcasting an oldies format. Licensed to Gorham, Maine, United States, it serves southern Maine, including Portland. Established in 1980 as WDCI, the station is owned by Robert Bittner through licensee Blue Jey Broadcasting Co., and is simulcast with WLAM (1470 AM).
The station went on the air March 3, 1980 as WDCI on 1590. In the intervening years, the station would change its call letters to WASY and then WJBQ, the latter after coming into common ownership with WLAM and WKZS (99.9 FM; now WTHT). WJBQ moved to the 870 position in 1988; on this position, the station became WKZN on November 28, 1989, and then swapped call letters with WLAM on December 26, 1990; the two stations eventually began simulcasting a standards format.
Wireless Talking Machine Company sold WLAM, 1470 (by then WZOU), and WLAM-FM (106.7 FM, which had launched in 1996 as an FM simulcast of the stations; it is now WXTP), along with 99.9 (by then WMWX) and WTHT (107.5 FM; now WFNK) to Harron Communications, then-owner of WMTW-TV, in 1999. On May 7, 2001, Harron converted 870 and 106.7 to news/talk as WMTW. The WLAM call letters were then returned to 1470, which initially retained the standards format; on November 26, the station was switched to a simulcast of WMTW; shortly afterwards, talk programming was removed from the stations in favor of an all-news format, mainly from the Associated Press's All-News Radio service.
After Harron sold its Maine radio stations to Nassau Broadcasting Partners in 2004, Newsradio WMTW was discontinued. Nassau also introduced three separate formats to the stations. with WMTW switching to progressive talk from Air America Radio under the call letters WLVP.
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