| City of license | Charlottesville, Virginia |
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| Broadcast area | Charlottesville, Virginia Albemarle County, Virginia |
| Branding | "NewsTalk 1260 AM & 107.5 FM" |
| Slogan | "Charlottesville's News, Talk, and Information Station" |
| Frequency | 1260 kHz |
| First air date | 1930 |
| Format | News/Talk |
| Power | 5,000 Watts daytime 2,500 Watts nighttime |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 19838 |
| Callsign meaning | W CHarlottesVille |
| Affiliations | Fox News Radio Premiere Radio Networks Wall Street Journal Radio Network |
| Owner | Monticello Media |
| Sister stations | WCHV-FM, WCYK, WHTE, WKAV, WZGN |
| Webcast | WCHV Webstream |
| Website | WCHV Online |
WCHV is a News/Talk formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Charlottesville, Virginia, serving Charlottesville and Albemarle County, Virginia. WCHV is owned and operated by Monticello Media.
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When it first went on air, WCHV was one of very few AM stereo stations in the nation. The station spent many years as an oldies station, until it was recast as a talk station in 1994. For several years it was largely automated, rebrodcasting feeds of national talk shows, largely non-political ones. In 1997 it became an urban contemporary station, anchored by The Tom Joyner Morning Show. The current lineup is anchored locally by Joe Thomas in-the-morning with News Director Melissa Neeley. Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Lars Larson and Dennis Miller round out the traditional talk show host lineup with Coast To Coast AM with George Noory and Art Bell carry the overnights.
In 2009 WCHV received the runner-up award for Most Outstanding Newscast by Virginia Association of Broadcasters.
On July 10th, 2007, VARTV.com reported that Kalil and Company Inc announced that it brokered a deal for Clear Channel to sell its entire Charlottesville cluster to George Reed's Sistema 102 LLC for $7.75 Million. Sistema 102 LLC changed its name to Monticello Media on September 1st, 2007.
On September 8th, 2008, WCHV began broadcasting its signal over FM translator W231AD (94.1 FM) located in Downtown Charlottesville. Previously, sister station WZGN had used that translator.
On January 14, 2011, WWTJ switched from an Adult Hits format to simulcasting sister station WCHV full time.[1] Translator W231AD began simulcasting sister WZGN once again at the same time.
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