WJUV

WJUV
City of license Cullman, Alabama
Frequency 88.3 MHz
First air date April 2011
Format Silent
Language(s) Spanish
ERP 88 watts (vertical)
HAAT 95 meters (312 ft)
Class A
Facility ID 177361
Transmitter coordinates 34°12′20″N 86°45′00″W / 34.20556°N 86.75000°W
Callsign meaning JUVenil
Owner Gene and Jeaniene Church
(Divine Word Communications, Inc.)

WJUV (88.3 FM) is an American radio station licensed to serve the community of Cullman, the county seat of Cullman County, Alabama. The station, established in 2011, is owned by Gene and Jeaniene Church and the broadcast license is held by Divine Word Communications, Inc.

Programming

WJUV normally broadcasts a Spanish-language Christian radio format. However, the station is silent since the studios were destroyed by a tornado that struck downtown Cullman on April 27, 2011.[1]

History

In October 2007, Centro Comunitario Juvenil Mahanaim, Inc., of Seattle, Washington, applied to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for a construction permit for a new broadcast radio station.[2] The FCC granted this permit on April 18, 2008 with a scheduled expiration date of April 18, 2011.[3] The new station was assigned call sign "WJUV" on December 21, 2010.[4] After construction and testing were completed, the station was granted its broadcast license on April 18, 2011.[5]

Two weeks after the station began broadcasting, the WJUV studio building was destroyed by an EF4 tornado during the April 27th tornado outbreak. With the tower damaged and the studios wrecked, the station's signal went dark. WJUV management notified the FCC of their silent state in May 2011 and requested special temporary authority to remain silent until technical issues could be resolved. The commission granted this authority on July 18, 2011, with a scheduled expiration of January 15, 2012.[6]

WJUV was sold to Gene and Jeaniene Church's Divine Word Communications, Inc. effective April 1, 2013. The price for the transaction was $50,000.

References

  1. ↑ "Tornado hits downtown Cullman". The Cullman Times. April 27, 2011. Retrieved December 19, 2011.
  2. ↑ "Charitable Solicitations Program Charity Profile Report (Registration #21066)". Charities Program. Washington Secretary of State. Retrieved December 19, 2011.
  3. ↑ "Application Search Details (BNPED-20071022BNS)". FCC Media Bureau. April 18, 2008. Retrieved December 19, 2011.
  4. ↑ "Call Sign History". CDBS Public Access Database. U.S. Federal Communications Commission Media Bureau. Retrieved December 19, 2011.
  5. ↑ "Application Search Details (BLED-20110413AAC)". FCC Media Bureau. April 18, 2011. Retrieved December 19, 2011.
  6. ↑ "Application Search Details (BLSTA-20110510ACC)". FCC Media Bureau. July 18, 2011. Retrieved December 19, 2011.

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