WBZS

Last updated
WARJ
City Shawsville, Virginia
Broadcast area Roanoke, Virginia
New River Valley
Frequency 102.5 MHz
Programming
Format Christian worship music
Network Air1
Ownership
Owner Educational Media Foundation
History
First air date
 2013
Former call signs
WBZS (2002–2020)
Technical information
Licensing authority
 FCC
Facility ID 89133
Class A
Power 150 Watts
HAAT 591 meters (1,939 ft)
Transmitter coordinates
 37°11′42.0″N80°9′23.0″W / 37.195000°N 80.156389°W / 37.195000; -80.156389
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WARJ is a radio station licensed to Shawsville, Virginia, broadcasting the Air1 network to Roanoke, Virginia and the New River Valley. [1] WARJ is owned by the Educational Media Foundation.

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History

The station signed on in 2003 as WBZS. From its sign-on, the station was leased by owner George S. Flinn, Jr., to Three Daughters Media, which simulcast the talk format of WIQO-FM Lynchburg. [2]

WBZS entered into a three-year lease to Community Media Group, owner of adult album alternative WVMP, on December 1, 2016. [3] [4]

On February 1, 2018, the AAA format moved exclusively to WBZS, which rebranded as "102.5 The Mountain". [5] [6]

Upon the lease ending on December 1, 2019, the AAA programming moved back to WVMP. [7]

In April 2020, Flinn donated the station's signal to air a noncommercial news/talk format focusing specifically on coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic in the New River Valley. The station was led by WVMP's former general manager and a volunteer staff, with on-air hosts working from home studios. [8] [9] Three months later, he sold the station and eight others to the Educational Media Foundation for $3.4 million. [10] The call letters were changed to WARJ on October 29, 2020, as the station picked up EMF's Air1 network.

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References

  1. ↑ "Arbitron Station Information Profiles". Nielsen Audio/Nielsen Holdings . Retrieved July 8, 2015.
  2. ↑ Venta, Lance (11 November 2013). "Lynchburg Talker Expands To Trimulcast". RadioInsight.
  3. ↑ "WBZS Facility Record". Federal Communications Commission, audio division. Retrieved July 8, 2015.
  4. ↑ Venta, Lance (December 14, 2016). "WVMP Expands to Blacksburg". Radio Insight.
  5. ↑ Venta, Lance (5 February 2018). "Roanoke's Mountain Loses One Of Its Signals". RadioInsight.
  6. ↑ "Time Brokerage Agreement" (PDF). FCC Public Inspection File.
  7. ↑ Venta, Lance (2 December 2019). "Roanoke's Mountain Returns to 101.5". RadioInsight.
  8. ↑ "All-Volunteer COVID-19 News/Talk Station Launches In Roanoke". RadioInsight. 2020-04-07. Retrieved 2020-04-08.
  9. ↑ "Volunteers launch radio station to discuss COVID-19". WDBJ . Retrieved 2020-04-08.
  10. ↑ Jacobson, Adam (2020-07-08). "Flinn Sells Nine To EMF, Via Three Associated Entities". Radio & Television Business Report. Retrieved 2020-11-13.
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