WVUS
City of license | Grafton, West Virginia |
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Broadcast area | Grafton, West Virginia Taylor County, West Virginia |
Branding | "Light of Life Ministry" |
Frequency | 1190 kHz |
First air date | 1948 |
Format | Catholic Religious |
Power | 4,500 Watts daytime 22 Watts nighttime |
Class | D |
Facility ID | 64661 |
Transmitter coordinates | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Callsign meaning | West Virginia United States |
Former callsigns | WVVW (1948–1950?) WTCS (1950?–1957) WVVW (1957–1982) WKGA (1982–1986) WTBZ (1986–2008) |
Owner | Light of Life Community, Inc. |
Sister stations | WLOL-FM |
Website | WVUS Online |
WVUS is a Catholic Religious formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Grafton, West Virginia, serving Grafton and Taylor County, West Virginia. WVUS is owned and operated by Light of Life Community, Inc.
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History
WVUS began broadcasting as WVVW in 1948. The station switched calls to WKGA in July 1982.
WVUS would become country formatted WTBZ and begin simulcasting then co-owned WTBZ-FM (now WKTZ-FM).
In August 2002, WTBZ-FM was sold to Educational Media Foundation (becoming a K-LOVE affiliate), while WTBZ dropped country for a Rhythmic Contemporary Hit Radio format.
On May 6, 2008, WTBZ became WVUS in the first step as becoming a "new station". Then owner Appalachian Radio filed an application to move the station from AM 1260 to AM 1190 and increase the station's daytime power to 4,500 watts.
On August 8, 2008, WVUS officially began broadcasting on AM 1190.
It was announced on November 6, 2009 that owner Steven Tocco was attempting to sell the station at an asking price of $59,000. Tocco cited low ad revenue and high operating costs as reasons for the sale, and gave a shutdown date of December 31.[1] On December 23, 2009, WVUS was sold to Light of Life Community, Inc. for $62,550.[citation needed]
On March 8, 2010, WVUS dropped its Adult Standards format for Catholic Religious programming.
See also
References
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
External links
- Light of Life Ministry Online
- Query the FCC's AM station database for WVUS
- Radio-Locator Information on WVUS
- Query Nielsen Audio's AM station database for WVUS
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