WAVP

{{Infobox radio station

| name = WAVP

| city = Avon Park, Florida

| above = Simulcasts WHNR, Cypress Gardens

| logo =

| logo_size =

| area = Sebring area

| branding = Boss Hogg Radio

| translator = {{Radio Relay|107.5|W298BU|Avon Park}}

| frequency = {{Frequency|1390|kHz}}

| airdate = {{start date and age|1970|10|1}}

| format = Adult hits

| power = {{ubl|1,000 watts day|77 watts night}}

| class = D

| licensing_authority = FCC

| facility_id = 72684

| coordinates = {{coord|27|37|8|N|81|29|27|W}}

| callsign_meaning = Avon Park

| former_callsigns = {{ubl|WAPR (1970–1993)|WKHF (1993–1994)|WAVP (1994–2006)|WFHT (2006–2020)}}

| affiliations = Fox News Radio
Premiere Networks

| owner = Ferris S. Waller, Sr.

| licensee = Walco Enterprises, LLC

| sister_stations = WHNR, WKFL, WWAB, WZHR

| webcast = {{Listen live|https://streamdb9web.securenetsystems.net/cirrusencore/WHNR}}

| website = {{url|https://www.bosshoggradio.com/}}

}}

WAVP (1390 AM) is a radio station licensed to Avon Park, Florida. WAVP is owned by Ferris Waller, through licensee Walco Enterprises, LLC, and operates with 1,000 watts day and 77 watts at night. The station is known on-air as Boss Hogg Radio.

History and current status

WAVP began broadcasting October 1, 1970. In 1992, the owner was Andrew Banas who bought the station for $100,000 in September 1990.{{cite web|url=http://radioyears.com/other/details.cfm?lid=15&id=1160|title=WAPR-AM|publisher=RadioYears.com|accessdate=December 29, 2010}} The station went silent on October 1, 2009, according to FCC records, but was resurrected in early 2010.

WFHT until January 2015 aired a nationally syndicated talk show lineup that included Neal Boortz, Michael Savage, Mark Levin, and Phil Hendrie Mondays through Fridays, and specialty talk shows on the weekends. WFHT was also an affiliate of the Tampa Bay Rays baseball team, the Tampa Bay Lightning hockey team, and NFL and NCAA football games; the former talk station also featured local talk shows. In 2015, WFHT began broadcasting Florida A&M Rattlers football games via the "Rattler Football Network".

From 2015 to 2020, the station broadcast an urban AC–urban contemporary gospel format. This ended when the station was sold to Walco Enterprises and began simulcasting the other three Boss Hogg Radio stations owned by the company, reclaiming the WAVP call sign it had used for most of its history until the mid-2000s.

Its frequency was previously occupied by another radio station also had the call letters of WAVP. {{cite thesis |last=Leffingwell |first=Robert Down |date=1983 |title=Causes and Indicators of Commercial AM Radio Station Failure: 1962-1976 |type=Dissertation |section=WAVP |publisher= The Ohio State University |docket= |oclc= |id={{ProQuest|303192463}} |page=501}} {{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-tampa-tribune/53525269/|date=November 4, 1957|page=2|title=Station on air|newspaper=Tampa Tribune|location=Tampa, Florida|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=April 24, 2025}} {{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-tampa-tribune/75283352/|date=February 27, 1961|page=31|title=Houses for sale|newspaper=Tampa Tribune|location=Tampa, Florida|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=April 24, 2025}} {{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-tampa-tribune/163699774/|date=October 17, 1963|page=20|title=News service files suit|newspaper=Tampa Tribune|location=Tampa, Florida|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=April 24, 2025}} {{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-tampa-tribune/163703354/|date=June 24, 1966|page=14|title=Radio station back on air|newspaper=Tampa Tribune|location=Tampa, Florida|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=April 24, 2025}}