file various applications that would have been necessary in the period—one of them to reflect owner Bahr's 2004 death. The station returned to the air in December 2007; it fully relaunched as Radio Joe on June 28, 2008, with the Radio Joe name in honor of the late Joseph Bahr. It then spent six months off the air after a September 2008 storm caused a power surge, damaging the antenna. WVIS lost electrical service to its transmitter site on Culebra in 2014 when the Autoridad de Energía Eléctrica, the Puerto Rico electrical utility, shut off power to co-sited station WJVP, which owned the tower, for nonpayment; as a result, the station applied for and received special temporary authority to operate a low-power transmitter at the studios, located on the main island of Puerto Rico at Luquillo. The Culebra tower was blown down in Hurricane Maria three years later, and in the most recent extension filed in June 2020, V.I. Stereo noted that the hurricane and subsequent earthquakes had created an economic disaster that stalled attempts to locate a new site. References External links VIS Radio stations established in 1973