WGVU-FM

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WGVU-FM
Broadcast area Grand Rapids, Michigan
First air date July 17, 1983
Frequency 88.5 MHz
Format talk/jazz
Owner Grand Valley State University

WGVU-FM is a radio station that serves that Greater Grand Rapids, Michigan area and is simulcasted throughout Western Michigan. The main broadcast frequency is 88.5 MHz, which is licensed to Allendale/Grand Rapids. It is simulcast on WGVS-FM 95.3 MHz, which is licensed to Whitehall/Muskegon. The format is talk/jazz.

WGVU-FM began broadcasting on July 17, 1983. The station since it's inception has served as a public brodcaster and is NPR affiliate.

95.3 FM in Whitehall began as Top 40 station WLRQ ("Super Q") in the late 1970s. In the mid-1980s, the station bore the WRNF calls while continuing with a Top 40 format. By the mid-1990s, 95.3 FM had the WKBZ-FM calls and was airing an urban contemporary format as "Power 95.3." Station owners Robert Jewell and Daniel Thill donated WKBZ-AM 850 and WKBZ-FM 95.3 to Grand Valley in 1995, but the following year the stations were sold to WLC Broadcasting, and it was not until November 1998 that WLC returned the stations to Grand Valley and the university began using them as simulcasts of WGVU-AM/FM.

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Radio stations in the Grand Rapids market (Arbitron #67)

FM:WYCE 88.1 | WGVU 88.5 | WBLU 88.9 | WGNB 89.3 | WAYG 89.9 | WCSG 91.3 | WBCT 93.7 | WTNR 94.5 | WLHT 95.7 | WMAX 96.1 | WLAV 96.9 | WGRD 97.9 | WFGR 98.7 | WJQK 99.3 | WTRV 100.5 | WBFX 101.3 | WFUR 102.9 | WVGR 104.1 | WSNX 104.5 | WHTS 105.3 | WOOD 105.7 | WQLR 106.5 | WMUS 106.9 | WKLQ 107.3

AM:WMFN 640 | WMJH 810 | WJNZ 1140 | WTKG 1230 | WOOD 1300 | WBBL 1340 | WNWZ 1410 | WGVU 1480 | WYGR 1530 | WFUR 1570 | WDSS 1680