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Broadcast area | |
Frequency | 100.3 MHz |
Programming | |
Format | Contemporary Christian |
Network | K-Love |
Ownership | |
Owner | Educational Media Foundation |
WLFV, WARV-FM | |
History | |
First air date | December, 1992 [1] |
Former call signs |
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Call sign meaning | K-Love Virginia |
Technical information [3] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
Facility ID | 21826 |
Class | A |
ERP | 4,500 watts |
HAAT | 116 meters (381 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 37°10′55.5″N77°23′59.9″W / 37.182083°N 77.399972°W |
Links | |
Public license information | |
Webcast | Listen live |
Website | www |
WKYV (100.3 MHz) is a commercial FM radio station, licensed to Petersburg, Virginia and serving the Greater Richmond Region in Virginia. [4] The station is branded as "K-Love" and features a Contemporary Christian format. The station is owned by Educational Media Foundation (EMF). [5] WKYV's transmitter is located off Johnson Road in Petersburg. [6]
WKYV signed on November 27, 1992, as WSVV, and carried an urban AC format that was targeted towards its city of license, Petersburg. [7] In August 1994, it would change call letters to WSOJ, but continued with the urban AC format. [8]
On February 10, 1998, WSOJ began simulcasting on newly acquired sister WVGO, which dropped its oldies format. [9] Radio One would buy the station in March 1999. [10] In October 1999, the WVGO/WSOJ simulcast ended, and Radio One began simulcasting their then-country station, WJRV ("105.7 The River") on WSOJ with new calls WARV-FM. In March 2001, Radio One sold the station to Honolulu Broadcasting, who would then lease it to Cox Radio via a local marketing agreement, and would split the simulcast by flipping WARV to a current-heavy country format as "Cat Country" to complement long-time powerhouse WKHK. [11] [12]
In December 2002, Honolulu would terminate the LMA with Cox and sell the station to MainQuad Broadcasting, owners of WBBT-FM, and flipped it to ESPN Radio on April 1, 2003, after months of stunting. On January 21, 2004, WARV dropped ESPN programming and flipped to a simulcast of WBBT, which would also adopt an oldies format on the same date. [13] [14]
In December 2005, WBBT and WARV, along with sister stations WWLB and WLFV, were purchased by Philadelphia-based Main Line Broadcasting. [15]
On July 1, 2014, Main Line Broadcasting sold its Richmond stations to L&L Broadcasting, with the combined entity taking the name Alpha Media. [16]
On October 20, 2014, WARV switched from simulcasting WBBT to sister WWLB, which aired a country format as "The Wolf". [17]
On December 5, 2016, EMF filed an application with the FCC to purchase both WARV-FM and WLFV for $2 million. [18]
On March 22, 2017, following the consummation of EMF's purchase, the station began stunting, directing listeners to sister station WWLB (the classic country-formatted "Hank FM"). [19] On March 23, 2017, EMF re-launched the station as "K-Love". [20]
On April 24, 2017, WARV-FM became WKYV as part of a call letter exchange with its sister station on 90.1 FM in Colonial Heights (the WARV-FM calls were a better match for that station's new identity as part of EMF's Air1 network).
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