from Boston's WRKO sometimes volunteered their time to developing WSVP's air talent, by traveling long distances from their homes in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, offer their major-market talent and consulting to the small station, which was also considered a training ground for RKO General Top 40 stations. WKRI WSVP wouldn't last long as on December 1, 1972, RSVP sold WSVP to Consolidated Communications, Inc., which changed the call sign to WKRI in 1973. WKRI was sold again in 1977 to Algonquin Broadcasting Company. Rainbow Broadcasting bought WKRI on October 5, 1979. Rainbow Broadcasting moved WKRI out of its longtime home of 1501 Main St. in West Warwick to its new location of 1585 Centerville Road in the same town. WKRI's next change of ownership came on February 16, 1984 when it was bought by WKRI Broadcasting Inc. Under WKRI Broadcasting's ownership, WKRI increased its nighttime power to 1,000 watts. WKRI Broadcasting sold WKRI to DBH Broadcasting on June 3, 1986. 1989 would bring another change of ownership: Atlantic Broadcasting System Inc. purchased WKRI on July 3, 1989. Atlantic Broadcasting became American Independent Radio, which then became DBH Broadcasting again. This was partially owned by Richard Bouchard, who also owned WNRI in Woonsocket; WKRI and WNRI would be sister stations from 1986 until 1995. WKRI was sold to Providence Broadcasting in 1995 for $200,000. The station's weekend Spanish-language programming moved to WPMZ (1110 AM) in East Providence, the former WHIM, while WHIM's call sign and country music programming moved to 1450. Radio Disney Hibernia of Rhode Island bought WHIM in 1997 and affiliated it with Radio Disney that December. In March 1998, the call letters were changed to WDYZ; in January 2000, the station changed to WHRC. Hibernia sold its stations, including WHRC, to ABC/Disney in 2000. WWRI (again), WLKW, WPVD After Disney acquired WICE (550 AM, now WSJW) in April 2001 and moved Radio Disney there, it sold WHRC to Hall Communications; that June, the station began simulcasting urban oldies with New Bedford sister station WNBH and returned to its original WWRI call sign. In July 2002, WWRI's call sign was changed to WLKW; the following month, WLKW and WNBH changed to an adult standards format. WLKW was an affiliate of the Pawsox Radio Network until 2009. The stations switched to ESPN Radio on February 2, 2009. The call sign changed to WPVD on September 6, 2017. After 10 years