WRIQ

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WRIQ
Broadcast area Richmond, Virginia–Petersburg, Virginia
Frequency 89.7 MHz
Programming
Format News/talk
Network Radio IQ
Affiliations BBC World Service
National Public Radio
Public Radio International
Ownership
Owner
WVTF, WWVT-FM, WISE-FM
History
First air date
 2000 [1]
Former call signs
WAUQ (1997–2015)
WLRJ (2015–2017)
WNVU (2017–2020) [2]
Call sign meaning
Richmond IQ
Technical information [3]
Licensing authority
 FCC
Facility ID 82970
Class B
ERP 27,000 Watts
HAAT 69.6 meters (228 ft)
Transmitter coordinates
 37°31′40.50″N77°22′46.90″W / 37.5279167°N 77.3796944°W / 37.5279167; -77.3796944
Links
Public license information
Webcast WRIQ Webstream
Website WRIQ Online

WRIQ (89.7 MHz) is a National Public Radio formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Charles City, Virginia, serving the Richmond–Petersburg area. [4] WRIQ is part of the Radio IQ network, simulcasting the NPR news and talk programming of flagship WVTF. WRIQ is owned by Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) through its fundraising arm, the Virginia Tech Foundation. [5]

Contents

History

American Family Association launched the station as WAUQ in 2000, [1] relaying its American Family Radio network which featured a mix of Christian teaching and Contemporary Christian music. [6] [7]

On August 18, 2015, Educational Media Foundation purchased the station from the American Family Association for $1.25 million. [8] [9] [10] EMF began relaying its K-Love network on the station, and changed the station's call letters to WLRJ. [2]

On April 17, 2017, WLRJ began stunting with a continuously repeating informational loop informing listeners that K-Love in Richmond had moved, and directing listeners to EMF's recently acquired stations on 98.9 FM (WLFV) and 100.3 FM (WKYV). [11]

On April 26, 2017, WLRJ began relaying EMF's Radio Nueva Vida network. [12] The station changed its call sign to WNVU on December 22, 2017.

On October 10, 2019, EMF reached a deal to sell WNVU to the Virginia Tech Foundation for $2.15 million. EMF had floated Virginia Tech intended to make WNVU part of its main NPR news and talk service, Radio IQ, as part of its effort to expand its reach outside its base in southwestern Virginia. [13] [14] The sale closed on December 27, 2019, and the station began simulcasting Radio IQ programming on January 15, 2020. That same day, the call sign WRIQ was moved from a co-owned Radio IQ station in Lexington, Virginia, which became WIQR.

Since 2009, WVTF had aired its programming on a low-powered translator at 92.5 FM, which is fed by the third HD Radio subchannel of commercial radio station WURV. The purchase of WRIQ gave WVTF a full-powered signal in the Richmond area for the first time, giving much of the area an alternative source for NPR programming alongside Richmond's established NPR member, WCVE-FM. WRIQ operates at only 27,000 watts from a short (by modern broadcasting standards) 228-foot tower east of Richmond, resulting in Petersburg and other close-in suburbs only getting a Grade B signal. Nonetheless, with the addition of WRIQ, the Radio IQ network now provided at least secondary coverage from Wise in the southwestern corner of the Commonwealth to the fringes of Hampton Roads. [14]

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  2. 1 2 "Call Sign History". Federal Communications Commission, audio division. Retrieved July 6, 2015.
  3. ↑ "Facility Technical Data for WRIQ". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  4. ↑ "Arbitron Station Information Profiles". Nielsen Audio/Nielsen Holdings . Retrieved July 6, 2015.
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  12. ↑ Costic, Lee. "WLRJ just flipped from @KLOVERadio to Spanish Christian @radionuevavida". Twitter. Retrieved 26 April 2017.
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