WGVU-FM

Infobox Radio station
name = WGVU-FM & WGVS-FM


city = WGVU-FM: Allendale, Michigan
WGVS-FM: Whitehall, Michigan
area = WGVU-FM: [http://www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WGVU&service=FM&status=L&hours=U]
WGVS-FM: [http://www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WGVS&service=FM&status=L&hours=U]
branding = WGVU Radio
slogan = West Michigan Public Radio
airdate = WGVU-FM: July 17 1983
WGVS-FM: unknown
frequency = WGVU-FM: 88.5 MHz HD Radio
WGVS-FM: 95.3 MHz
format = Public: News/Talk, Jazz
power = WGVU-FM: 3,000 watts
WGVS-FM: 2,000 watts
erp =
class = WGVU-FM: A
WGVS-FM: A
callsign_meaning = Grand Valley State University
former_callsigns = WGVU-FM:
WGVC-FM (1/19/83-12/14/87)
WSRX (10/74-7/82)
WGVS-FM:
WKBZ-FM (3/19/93-3/1/99)
WMHZ (?-?)
WLRQ (?-?)
owner = Grand Valley State University
webcast =
website = [http://www.wgvu.org/radio/ http://www.wgvu.org/radio/]
affiliations = NPR

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 its inception has served as a public broadcaster 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.

Sources

* [http://www.michiguide.com/dials/rad-g/wgvu.html Michiguide.com - WGVU-FM History]
* [http://www.michiguide.com/dials/rad-g/wgvs.html Michiguide.com - WGVS-FM History]

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