WSPV-FM

WSPV-FM (99.5 FM) is a commercial station in the Springfield, MA market licensed to Northampton, MA. The station's studios are located at the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame located in Springfield, while the station transmitter resides in Springfield's Brightwood neighborhood.

As WWLP-FM
On October 5, 1956, WWLP-FM who launch over the air waves. It was a sister station to WWLP-AM (AM 1050), and WWLP-TV (channel 22), all of these stations were owned by broadcasting executive William L. Putnam under Putnam Broadcasting Group (later Springfield Television). During the station's earliest years, it simulcasted WWLP-AM, as such it carried a full-service format and was an affiliate of the NBC Radio Network. In 1968, both stations would drop their full-service formats and adopted a Top 40 format. In 1970, the station would split from its simulcast of WWLP-AM and switch to an album-oriented rock station, However, it retained the WWLP-FM call-letters which it used at that time.

Joining the "Concert Network"/WSCN
In 1975, as part of Springfield Television's mass-selling of radio assets, the company sold WWLP-FM to The Concert Network, Inc. However, due to FCC rules at the time which didn't allow stations from the same market but have different owners to have the same call letters, WWLP-FM would change its call-letters to WSCN (with call-letters similar to other stations owned by the company). The station would become an affiliate of the Concert Network (a brand of stations owned by TCN that all air classical music). While the station was able to gain a niche audience, it didn't do well in the ratings. The Concert Network would eventually sell WSCN to Harte-Hanks in 1980.

Harte-Hanks wanted to improve the ratings of the stations, as such they got rid of the station's affiliation with the Concert Network and changed the station's format to an oldies format branded "Scan 95" the following year. Despite small competition with AM radio station WARE (1250 AM), the station continued to broadcast its oldies format until 1987. That was when Infinity Broadcasting, owner of several rock radio stations purchased the station from Harte-Hanks. From their, they switched the station to an active rock format and gradually add more elements of other Infinity rock stations.

In 1989, WSCN would pick up the local rights to The Howard Stern Show, a tradition that many Infinity radio stations had. Before 1989, former sister station WBCN (now WWBX) in Boston, which served parts of Springfield was Springfield's de-facto home of the talk show. Following the local introduction of The Howard Stern Show, the station would see a massive ratings upboost. The station would become one of Western Massachusetts' top ranking stations of that time.

The Birth of Rock City 95.5
On September 18, 1993, the Scan 95 branding would officially end and a new branding "Rock City 95.5" would be born. The first song to play on "Rock City 95.5" was "Something Good" by Utah Saints. The call-letters would also change to WRKC-FM. Despite this, the station's format and programming was essentially the same. The logo (a street sign saying Rock City 95.5) was inspired by sister station KOME-FM (now KUFX, 98.5 FM) in San Francisco which used a traffic sign as its logo. In 1996, Infinity Broadcasting would be merged into the radio division of CBS, 2 years later in 1998, CBS Radio would change its name to Infinity Radio (it reverted back to CBS Radio in 2005).

Talk radio
Following Howard Stern's departure from broadcasting radio and moving to SiriusXM in 2005, CBS Radio would launch a talk intensive radio network known as Free FM and several CBS radio stations which previously carried The Howard Stern Show would carry Free FM as an affiliate. WRKC-FM would become a launch affiliate of the service on October 25, 2005. Not only did it change its call-letters to WFMA-FM (standing for Free Massachusetts), but it also completely got rid of its active rock format but moved to Saturdays and Sundays under the name "Free Rock Weekends". Free FM didn't last that long, and the service closed by 2007. On September 5, 2007, WFMA-FM would changed its call-letters to WSPV-FM and changed its branding to "First Talk 95.5". The station also changed its format to a talk/classic rock hybrid format.

SPV 95.5/95.5 AMP Radio
On April 26, 2009, WSPV-FM would drop its talk/classic rock hybrid format officially ending its broadcasting of talk shows after 20 years and flipping to a contemporary hit format known as SPV 95.5. The first song to play on SPV 95.5 was "Day 'n' Nite" by Kid Cudi. In 2010, SPV 95.5 would premiere the morning talk show Morning Springfield, hosted by Harlan O'Sullivan, Josh Fountain, and Emilia Partridge. On February 28, 2014, the station would change its branding to 95.5 AMP Radio to fit more in line with other CBS owned hit radio stations that had the "AMP" brand. The final song to play on SPV 95.5 was "Hold On, We're Going Home" while the first song to play on 95.5 AMP Radio was "Rude" by Magic!

On February 2, 2017, CBS Radio announced it would merge with Entercom. The merger was approved on November 9, 2017, and was consummated on November 17.

Rock City's Return
On August 2, 2017, 3 months before CBS Radio's merger with Entercom, WSPV-FM announced that it would officially end its hit radio format alongside other former AMP branded stations. The last song to play on 95.5 AMP Radio was "Bye Bye Bye" by NSYNC. In the interim period of the flip, WSPV-FM stunted with a format known as "Z-666". This temporary format consisted of songs that mentioned Hell (such as "Lake of Fire", "Highway to Hell" and "To Hell with the Devil") and songs edited to feature screaming and fire sound effects. This lasted for a week until August 9 when the last edited song ("R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A." by John Cougar Mellencamp) was aired, which hinted the return of a rock-based format. Shortly after that song was played, the station would flip back to an active rock format reusing the old "Rock City 95.5" branding. It was one of the few former AMP stations not to retain its Top 40 format nor adopt the "Alt" branding and format.