WKVU

WKVU
City of license Utica, New York
Broadcast area Utica, New York
Branding K-Love
Slogan Positive and Encouraging
Frequency 107.3 MHz
First air date 1962 (as WUFM)
Format Contemporary Christian
ERP 50,000 watts
HAAT 152 meters
Class B
Facility ID 54549
Transmitter coordinates 43°8′40.00″N 75°10′32.00″W / 43.1444444°N 75.1755556°W
Callsign meaning K-Love Utica
Former callsigns WUFM (1962–1970)
WZOW (1970–1975)
WTLB-FM (1975–1981)
WRCK (1981–2010)
Affiliations K-LOVE
Owner Educational Media Foundation
Sister stations WARW
Webcast Listen Live
Website klove.com

WKVU (107.3 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a Contemporary Christian format. Licensed to Utica, New York, USA, the station serves the Utica-Rome area. The station is currently owned by the Educational Media Foundation, and is an affiliate of the K-Love network.

History

See also: WUTQ-FM

WKVU signed on in 2001 on 100.3 FM, when Bethany Broadcasting sold its religious station broadcasting on that frequency, WVVC, to the Educational Media Foundation. Upon acquiring WVVC, EMF changed its call letters to WKVU and began simulcasting its K-Love satellite format of Contemporary Christian music on the station.

Its current frequency was previously owned by Galaxy Communications, who ran a classic rock format on the frequency under the callsign WRCK and slogan Rock 107. Prior to this WRCK was a longtime Top 40 station. For a few points in time during their time as a Top 40 station, WRCK was known as Power Hits Rock 107 and lastly, briefly as Hot 107. Their Top 40 format lasted until June 1994 when Galaxy purchased the station from H & D Entertainment Incorporated. In October 2007 Galaxy purchased a portion of Clear Channel Communications' Utica cluster, including WRCK's rival, WOUR. WOUR's signal was deemed to be stronger and more favorable than WRCK's and so WRCK was spun off to EMF. Some of WRCK's former staff moved to WOUR.[1] EMF then announced that it would keep the WRCK call letters and simulcast their Christian rock satellite format Air 1 on the station. WRCK's last song as Rock 107 was Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven" before the Air 1 satellite feed was picked up.

Back during the early 1980s, the WRCK calls belonged to ABC Radio Networks owned-and-operated WRCK-FM 95 (dial position 94.7) in Chicago.[2] In 1981, the station changed its calls to WLS-FM to join with its sister AM station, WLS-AM, while the WRCK calls went to 107.3 FM.

On December 15, 2010 WRCK swapped frequencies with WKVU, with WRCK (and its Air 1 affiliation) moving to 100.7 FM and WKVU moving to 107.3 FM. The next year, EMF sold WRCK to Ken Roser, who renamed the station WUTQ-FM and began simulcasting the full service soft adult contemporary format then heard on sister stations WUTQ and WADR, which assumed the WRCK call letters. EMF then moved its Air 1 affiliation to WOKR.

Former on-air staff

References

  1. ↑ "WRCK Rock 107 signs off". Observer Dispatch. 2007-10-25. Retrieved 2008-06-15.
  2. ↑ http://www.radiotimeline.com/am89wls.htm

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