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Iconic 102.5 WDVE sign being taken down from Green Tree building

An iconic sign that has been seen by drivers on the Parkway West for years will be no more. 

The 102.5 WDVE sign on the Fleet Street building has been seen by drivers heading west and east on the Parkway for years, but on Thursday, crews were taking down the signage. 

iHeartMedia, the owner of 102.5 WDVE and other stations that used to be housed in the building, moved out in 2021, but the sign remained. 

"End of an era going down this week," said 102.5 WDVE DJ Chad Tyson on social media. "The gold flash cue DVE sign coming down today. 102.5 goes down today, WDVE going down on Friday. Ride on the parkway is going to look a lot different, man." 

Tyson said in his social media video that the crew working didn't know where the sign is going, but he's going to try to find out more about what will happen to the sign once it's down. 

"We haven't been in that building since COVID, but this is extremely sad to me," WDVE Morning Show host Randy Baumann on X (formerly known as Twitter). "I wish we were still there - one of the greatest studios in the country just sitting there vacant." 

"We have the call letters!" DJ shares update

After Pittsburghers reacted to the iconic 102.5 WDVE sign being taken off the building facing the Parkway West, the natural next question was, "What is going to happen to them?" 

Well, just as he did on Friday, Tyson provided the answer. 

"We have the call letters," he said on social media. "I'm not sure happened to the 102.5, but the W the D the V and the E, we have all of those, they're in storage somewhere, I don't know what we're going to do with them, but you know us, we'll come up with something cool." 

Tyson went on to explain that the reasoning for the sign being taken down was the station's move to Bridgeville a few years ago. 

The iconic sign was originally put on the building in 2005. 

"Parkway West, never going to look the same, man," Tyson concluded. 

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