WWVT-FM

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WWVT-FM
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Broadcast area Southside Virginia
Frequency 89.9 MHz
BrandingWVTF Music
Programming
Format Classical music
Affiliations National Public Radio
Ownership
Owner
WVTF, WISE-FM
History
First air date
January 1989;35 years ago (1989-01) (as WFFC) [1]
Former call signs
WFFC (1987–2017) [2]
Technical information [3]
Licensing authority
 FCC
Facility ID 21417
Class A
ERP 1,100 watts
HAAT 207 meters (679 ft)
Transmitter coordinates
 36°54′50.0″N79°57′7.0″W / 36.913889°N 79.951944°W / 36.913889; -79.951944
Translator(s) See § Low-powered translators
Links
Public license information
Webcast WWVT-FM Webstream
Website WWVT-FM Online

WWVT (1260 kHz) and WWVT-FM (89.9 MHz) are non-commercial public radio stations. WWVT is licensed to Christiansburg, Virginia, and WWVT-FM is licensed to Ferrum, Virginia. [4] They broadcast a classical music format and are owned and operated by Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. [5] WWVT-FM is the flagship station of WVTF Music, a companion service to WVTF, Southwestern Virginia's NPR member news and information station. WWVT-AM-FM have their studios and offices at WVTF's facility in Roanoke.

Contents

WWVT-FM has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 1,100 watts. The transmitter is on Waidsboro Road in Ferrum. [6] WWVT 1260 has a power of 5,000 watts by day and 25 watts at night. Its transmitter is on Walton Road at Caboose Road in Radford. [7] Programming is also heard on a series of rebroadcasters and FM translators around Southwest Virginia.

Programming

WWVT-AM-FM are the flagship stations of WVTF Music. Much of the network's weekday programming is classical music, from midnight to early evenings. Weeknights are devoted to jazz music.

Weekends include blocks of album adult alternative (AAA), bluegrass, Americana and opera. National and regional shows include Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts, Sunday Baroque , Mountain Stage , The Thistle and Shamrock , All Songs Considered , Pipedreams and American Routes . [8]

History

WWVT-FM 89.9

The station signed on the air in January 1989;35 years ago. [9] [1] The original call sign was WFFC, the student station of Ferrum College. Its power at the time was only 100 watts.

In 2003, the Virginia Tech Foundation launched a secondary all-news and talk service, Radio IQ, on WWVT (1260 AM in Christiansburg). This schedule contrasted with WVTF's full-service schedule of music and news. As WWVT was only licensed to broadcast during the day at the time, WFFC joined Radio IQ in order to give it a 24-hour signal. The Virginia Tech Foundation also intended to have WFFC feed Radio IQ to extra FM translators that it owned. Since FCC rules prevent a station from feeding translators via microwave that are not co-owned, Ferrum sold WFFC to the foundation in November of that year. [10] [11] [12]

This arrangement lasted until July 10, 2017, when Radio IQ became the Virginia Tech Foundation's primary service and moved to WVTF's more powerful signal and repeater network. As WVTF covers WFFC's entire broadcast area, it dropped Radio IQ to become the flagship of WVTF Music. The station changed its call sign to the current WWVT-FM in the same month. [13] [14] [15] Due to the relatively modest coverage areas of the WWVT stations and their translators, WVTF Music is simulcast on the second HD Radio channels of all full-power Radio IQ stations except WRIQ in Richmond. [15]

WWVT 1260 AM

WWVT
Broadcast area Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, Virginia
Frequency 1260kHz
Ownership
Owner
  • Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
  • (Virginia Tech Foundation, Inc.)
WWVT-FM, WVTF
History
First air date
November 21, 1954;69 years ago (1954-11-21)
Former call signs
WBCR (1954–1966)
WJJJ (1966–1995)
WNNI (1995–1998)
Technical information [16]
Licensing authority
 FCC
Facility ID 48622
Class D
Power 5,000 watts days
25 watts nights
Transmitter coordinates
 37°9′14.4″N80°30′25.2″W / 37.154000°N 80.507000°W / 37.154000; -80.507000
Translator(s) See § Low-powered translators
Links
Public license information

AM 1260 signed on in October 1954. Its original call sign was WBCR and it was a daytimer, required to leave the air at night. It was later known as "Triple J" WJJJ. It competed in the 1960s and 1970s with Virginia Tech's student radio station, WUVT, for the local Top 40 market. [17] [18]

The station became WNNI in 1995. Bocephus Broadcasting purchased eight stations in the Blacksburg-Christiansburg market in 1997, after which it donated WNNI to the Virginia Tech Foundation. [19]

In 2003, Virginia Tech launched the original incarnation of Radio IQ on the rechristened WWVT. [20] WWVT was originally a daytimer that was required to go off the air at sunset to prevent interference to WCHV and WKXR on the same channel. After more than 50 years of daytime-only operation, WWVT added 25 watts of night power in 2005.

WWVT left Radio IQ and joined the WVTF Music network in 2017, in order to take advantage of its Blacksburg-based FM translator W238BN (95.5 FM).


Network stations

Full-powered stations

Call sign Frequency City of license ERP
W 		Class FCC info
WWVT-FM [lower-alpha 1] 89.9 FM Ferrum, Virginia 1,100A FCC (WWVT-FM)
WWVT1260 AM Christiansburg, Virginia 5,000 day/25 nightD FCC (WWVT)

Notes:

Low-powered translators

Call sign Frequency City of license FID ERP (W) Class FCC infoNotes
W201CN88.1 FM Afton, Virginia 9368110D LMS Relays WVTU-HD2
W208AP89.5 FM Lynchburg, Virginia 8454410D LMS Relays WWVT-FM
W208BX89.5 FM Roanoke, Virginia 70342250D LMS Relays WVTF-HD2
W209AA89.7 FM Charlottesville, Virginia 70343250D LMS Relays WVTW-HD2
W211BE90.1 FM Lebanon, Virginia 927008.5D LMS Relays WWVT-FM
W211BF90.1 FM Big Stone Gap, Virginia 927028D LMS Relays WISE-FM-HD2
W215BJ90.9 FM Saint Paul, Virginia 1221331D LMS Relays WWVT-FM
W238BN95.5 FM Blacksburg, Virginia 156071250D LMS Relays WWVT
W270BJ101.9 FM Lexington, Virginia 14566825D LMS Relays WIQR-HD2

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