About us

WVOE (1590 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a Gospel music and Urban Adult Contemporary format. Licensed to Chadbourn, North Carolina in the United States. The station is owned by Ebony Enterprises. WVOE first signed on in 1962 and is the oldest African American owned radio station in the South.

“Willie Walls recalled WVOE’s initial impact in a recent interview. In 1962, “blacks had just been turned loose more or less to freedom, and they wanted to be in the limelight of everything,” Walls argues. “To own a black radio station here in Chadbourn—that was almost something unheard of.”

THE PEOPLE OF WVOE:

Martha Mckoy – Station Manager, DJ,”Queen of Gospel”
Lester Frink – WVOE President
Logan Kennedy – Director of Sales and Marketing, News Operations Director
Dr. Shawn Smith Baker – Host of WVOE’s ‘Woman’s World’ Program
Jeff Macdowell – DJ, “Mr. Mac”
David Lopez – DJ, “Mr. Lopez”
Tommy Brown – DJ
Vondell – DJ, “Ms. V”
Mr. Lee – DJ, “The Old Man”