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{{Infobox Radio station
{{Infobox radio station
| name = WFVA
| name = WFVA
| image = [[Image:WFVA-AM 2011.PNG|200px]]
| logo = WFVA-AM 2014.png
| city = [[Fredericksburg, Virginia]]
| logo_size = 200px
| city = [[Fredericksburg, Virginia]]
| area = [[Fredericksburg, Virginia]]
| area = Metro Fredericksburg
| branding = ''"AM1230 WFVA"''
| branding = ''NewsTalk 1230 WFVA''
| slogan = ''"The Songs You Remember"''
| airdate = September 8, [[1939 in radio|1939]]<ref name="LaunchDate"/>
| airdate = [[1939 in radio|1939]]
| frequency = {{Frequency|1230|[[kHz]]}}
| frequency = 1230 [[Kilohertz|kHz]]
| format = [[Talk radio|Talk]]<ref name="Arbitron"/>
| format = [[Adult Standards]]
| power = 1,000 [[watt]]s unlimited
| power = 1,000 [[Watt]]s day and night
| class = C
| erp =
| facility_id = 41813
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| coordinates = {{coord|38|16|50.0|N|77|26|11.0|W|type:landmark}}
| haat =
| callsign_meaning = Fredericksburg, Virginia
| class = C
| former_frequencies = 1260 kHz (1939–1945)<ref>{{cite web|title=WFVA History Grid|url=https://fccdata.org/?facid=41813&hview=1|website=FCCData}}</ref>
| facility_id = 41813
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| owner = [[Centennial Broadcasting]]
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| coordinates = {{coord|38|16|50.0|N|77|26|11.0|W|type:landmark}}
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| licensee = Centennial Licensing II, LLC
| callsign_meaning = '''W''' '''F'''redericksburg '''V'''irgini'''A'''
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| sister_stations = [[WBQB]]
| former_callsigns =
| webcast = [http://icy3.abacast.com/centennialb-wfvaamaac-64.m3u WFVA Webstream]
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| owner = Centennial Broadcasting
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| website = [http://www.newstalk1230.net/ newstalk1230.net]
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| licensee = Centennial Licensing II, LLC
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| affiliations = [[ABC News Radio]]<br>[[Fox News Radio]]<br>[[Premiere Networks]]<br>[[Salem Radio Network]]<br>[[Westwood One]]<br>[[The Weather Channel]]
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| sister_stations = [[WBQB]]
| licensing_authority= [[Federal Communications Commission|FCC]]
| webcast = [http://den-a.plr.liquidcompass.net/player/flash/audio_player.php?id=WFVAAM&uid=374 WFVA Webstream]
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| website = [http://www.wfvaradio.com/ WFVA Online]
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| affiliations = [[ABC News Radio|ABC Radio News]]<br>[[Dial Global]]'s [[America's Best Music]] network<br>[[The Weather Channel]]
}}
}}
'''WFVA''' is an [[Adult Standards]] formatted [[Broadcasting|broadcast]] [[radio station]] licensed to [[Fredericksburg, Virginia]], serving the Metro [[Fredericksburg, Virginia|Fredericksburg]] area. WFVA is owned and operated Centennial Broadcasting.


'''WFVA''' (1230 [[AM broadcasting|AM]]) is a [[commercial radio|commercial]] [[radio station]] in [[Fredericksburg, Virginia]].<ref name="Arbitron"/> WFVA is owned and operated by [[Centennial Broadcasting]].<ref name="FCC"/> It airs a [[talk radio]] [[radio format|format]]. The studios, offices and [[transmitter]] are on Mimosa Street in Fredericksburg.<ref>[https://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/patg?id=WFVA-AM Radio-Locator.com/WFVA-AM]</ref> The [[call sign]] stands for Fredericksburg, Virginia. It has kept the same call letters for its eight decades of broadcasting.
==Format Flip==
On April 15, 2011, WFVA switched from a [[News radio|News]]/[[Talk radio|Talk]]/[[Sports Radio|Sports]] format to Adult Standards and Oldies with the branding "The Songs You Remember".<ref>[http://www.radio-info.com/news/making-moves-friday-april-15-2011 "Making Moves: Friday, April 15, 2011"]</ref> The station carries programming from [[Dial Global]]'s [[America's Best Music]] network.


The station has a local talk and information show in weekday morning [[drive time]]. The rest of the day is made up of [[radio syndication|nationally syndicated]] talk shows from [[Glenn Beck]], [[Michael Savage]], [[Laura Ingraham]], [[Mark Levin]], [[John Batchelor]], ''[[Coast to Coast AM]] with [[George Noory]]'', and ''[[This Morning, America's First News with Gordon Deal]]''. Most hours begin with [[ABC News Radio]].
==Ownership and Licensee(s)==
Centennial Broadcasting owns 0% of votes, equity, and total assets of WFVA.<ref>[https://licensing.fcc.gov/cdbs/cdbs_docs/ef/Form323/323_print/323_101.cfm?form=323_101.cfm&acct=0&appn=101384569&fac_num=41809&formid=322"FCC License Application"]</ref>


WFVA was scheduled to broadcast all [[Fredericksburg Nationals]] baseball games in the 2020 baseball season<ref>{{cite news |title=Fredericksburg Nationals ink radio deal |url=https://potomaclocal.com/2020/02/27/fredericksburg-nationals-ink-radio-deal/ |access-date=March 16, 2020 |work=Potomac Local |publisher=Potomac Local Media, LLC |date=February 28, 2020}}</ref> before the season was cancelled due to the [[COVID-19 pandemic]].<ref>{{cite news |title=2020 Minor League Baseball Season Shelved|url=https://www.milb.com/news/2020-minor-league-baseball-season-shelved|website=Minor League Baseball|date=June 30, 2020|access-date=August 22, 2020}}</ref>
G FORCE, LLC of 39 East 79th St, Apt. 14, New York, NY 10021, holds 98.9% of votes, equity, and total assets of WFVA.<ref>[https://licensing.fcc.gov/cdbs/cdbs_docs/ef/Form323/323_print/323_101.cfm?form=323_101.cfm&acct=0&appn=101384569&fac_num=41809&formid=322"FCC License Application"]</ref>


==History==
Gordon Gray, Jr. of the same address as G FORCE, LLC is listed as a station licensee and officer of G FORCE, LLC.<ref>[https://licensing.fcc.gov/cdbs/cdbs_docs/ef/Form323/323_print/323_101.cfm?form=323_101.cfm&acct=0&appn=101384569&fac_num=41809&formid=322"FCC License Application"]</ref> Mr. Gordon has been a donor to Democratic party causes. <ref>[http://www.opensecrets.org/indivs/search.php?name=gray%2C+gordon+jr&state=&zip=10075&employ=&cand=&all=Y&sort=N&capcode=8k8c5&submit=Submit"Opensecrets.org Political Donor Database"]</ref> Allen B. Shaw of 3443 Robinhood Rd., Ste. H, Winston-Salem, NC 27106, is listed as a station licensee, officer, and member of G FORCE, LLC.<ref>[https://licensing.fcc.gov/cdbs/cdbs_docs/ef/Form323/323_print/323_101.cfm?form=323_101.cfm&acct=0&appn=101384569&fac_num=41809&formid=322"FCC License Application"]</ref> Christopher Jarrell of 492 Ridgeway Ln., Lexington, NC 27295, is listed as a station licensee, officer, and member of G FORCE, LLC.<ref>[https://licensing.fcc.gov/cdbs/cdbs_docs/ef/Form323/323_print/323_101.cfm?form=323_101.cfm&acct=0&appn=101384569&fac_num=41809&formid=322"FCC License Application"]</ref>
On September 8, 1939, WFVA first [[sign-on|signed on]].<ref>[http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-YB/1940/Radio-by-State-BC-YB-1940-All.pdf Broadcasting Yearbook 1940 page 162]</ref> It was originally owned by the Fredericksburg Broadcasting Company. The station was powered at 250 [[watt]]s and broadcast at 1260&nbsp;kHz. It was the first radio station in Fredericksburg.


By the late 1940s, it had moved to its current dial position, 1230&nbsp;kHz. It was a [[network affiliate]] of [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]].
==References==
{{reflist}}


In the 1950s, [[Richard Field Lewis Jr.]] bought 60% and added it to his Richard Field Lewis Jr. Stations network.<ref name=B-Obit>
==External links==
{{cite news
*[http://www.wfvaradio.com/ AM1230 WFVA Online]
| title = Lewis, Multiple AM Owner, dies
*{{AM station data|WFVA}}
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| publisher = Broadcasting
| url = https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1957/1957-10-28-BC.pdf
| pages = 74
| date = 28 October 1957
| access-date = 18 December 2018}}</ref><ref name=TD-Obit>
{{cite news
| title = Obituary
| publisher = Television Digest
| url = https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-TV-Digest/50s/Television-Digest-1957-10.pdf
| pages = 6
| date = October 1957
| access-date = 18 December 2018}}</ref><ref name=wife-Obit>
{{cite news
| title = Marion P. Lewis
| publisher = Free Lance-Star
| url = https://www.fredericksburg.com/obituaries/marion-p-lewis/article_05b1ed16-8949-5437-8a64-f38418329c98.html
| date = 14 April 2001


| access-date = 18 December 2018}}</ref><ref>
{{-}}
{{cite news
| title = WLXW Purchase: Lewis Buys for $70,000
| publisher = Telecasting Yearbook
| url = https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-YB/1956-57-TV/Telecasting-Yearbook-1956-1957-301-End.pdf
| pages = 340
| date = 1956
| access-date = 18 December 2018}}</ref>


In 1960, it signed on an [[FM radio]] station at 101.5&nbsp;MHz, WFVA-FM.<ref>[http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-YB/1967/B%202%20Radio%201967%20YB.pdf Broadcasting Yearbook 1967 page B-170]</ref> Now known as [[WBQB]], it is still WFVA's [[sister station]].
{{Fredericksburg Radio}}

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{{Oldies Radio Stations in Virginia}}
Through the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, WFVA carried a [[Full service (radio format)|full service]] format, airing [[middle of the road (music)|middle of the road]] music, news and talk. By the 1990s, it transitioned to a full-time talk format, airing shows from the [[Cumulus Media Networks#ABC Radio Networks|ABC Talkradio]] Network.<ref>[http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-YB/1994/B-Radio-NE-Ter-BC-YB-1994-B&W.pdf Broadcasting & Cable Yearbook 1994 page B-386]</ref> WFVA is still affiliated with ABC News Radio.
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{{Centennial Broadcasting}}
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[[Category:Radio stations in Virginia|FVA]]
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==References==
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{reflist|refs=
<ref name="LaunchDate">{{cite book|url=http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-YB/2010/D4-2010-BC-YB-7.pdf|title=Broadcasting Yearbook 2010|date=2010|access-date=July 16, 2015|publisher=ProQuest, LLC/Reed Publishing (Nederland), B.V.|page=D-564}}</ref>
<ref name="Arbitron">{{cite web|url=http://www1.arbitron.com/sip/displaySip.do?surveyID=SP15&band=am&callLetter=WFVA|title=Arbitron Station Information Profiles|access-date=July 16, 2015|work=[[Nielsen Audio]]/[[Nielsen Holdings]]}}</ref>
<ref name="FCC">{{cite web|url=http://transition.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/amq?call=WFVA|title=WFVA Facility Record|access-date=July 16, 2015|work=[[Federal Communications Commission]], audio division}}</ref>
}}


==External links==
==External links==
*[http://www.wfvaradio.com/ AM1230 WFVA Online]
* [http://www.newstalk1230.net/ WFVA Website]
*{{AM station data|WFVA}}
{{AM station data|41813|WFVA}}


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{{Clear}}


{{Fredericksburg Radio}}
{{Fredericksburg Radio}}
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{{News/Talk Radio Stations in Virginia}}
{{Centennial Broadcasting}}

[[Category:1939 establishments in Virginia]]
[[Category:News and talk radio stations in the United States]]
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[[Category:Radio stations established in 1939]]
[[Category:Radio stations in Virginia|FVA]]
[[Category:Radio stations in Virginia|FVA]]
{{Virginia-radio-station-stub}}

Latest revision as of 10:13, 24 July 2024

WFVA
Broadcast areaMetro Fredericksburg
Frequency1230 kHz
BrandingNewsTalk 1230 WFVA
Programming
FormatTalk[1]
AffiliationsABC News Radio
Fox News Radio
Premiere Networks
Salem Radio Network
Westwood One
The Weather Channel
Ownership
Owner
WBQB
History
First air date
September 8, 1939[2]
Former frequencies
1260 kHz (1939–1945)[3]
Call sign meaning
Fredericksburg, Virginia
Technical information[4]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID41813
ClassC
Power1,000 watts unlimited
Transmitter coordinates
38°16′50.0″N 77°26′11.0″W / 38.280556°N 77.436389°W / 38.280556; -77.436389
Links
Public license information
WebcastWFVA Webstream
Websitenewstalk1230.net

WFVA (1230 AM) is a commercial radio station in Fredericksburg, Virginia.[1] WFVA is owned and operated by Centennial Broadcasting.[5] It airs a talk radio format. The studios, offices and transmitter are on Mimosa Street in Fredericksburg.[6] The call sign stands for Fredericksburg, Virginia. It has kept the same call letters for its eight decades of broadcasting.

The station has a local talk and information show in weekday morning drive time. The rest of the day is made up of nationally syndicated talk shows from Glenn Beck, Michael Savage, Laura Ingraham, Mark Levin, John Batchelor, Coast to Coast AM with George Noory, and This Morning, America's First News with Gordon Deal. Most hours begin with ABC News Radio.

WFVA was scheduled to broadcast all Fredericksburg Nationals baseball games in the 2020 baseball season[7] before the season was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[8]

History

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On September 8, 1939, WFVA first signed on.[9] It was originally owned by the Fredericksburg Broadcasting Company. The station was powered at 250 watts and broadcast at 1260 kHz. It was the first radio station in Fredericksburg.

By the late 1940s, it had moved to its current dial position, 1230 kHz. It was a network affiliate of ABC.

In the 1950s, Richard Field Lewis Jr. bought 60% and added it to his Richard Field Lewis Jr. Stations network.[10][11][12][13]

In 1960, it signed on an FM radio station at 101.5 MHz, WFVA-FM.[14] Now known as WBQB, it is still WFVA's sister station.

Through the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, WFVA carried a full service format, airing middle of the road music, news and talk. By the 1990s, it transitioned to a full-time talk format, airing shows from the ABC Talkradio Network.[15] WFVA is still affiliated with ABC News Radio.

References

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  1. ^ a b "Arbitron Station Information Profiles". Nielsen Audio/Nielsen Holdings. Retrieved July 16, 2015.
  2. ^ Broadcasting Yearbook 2010 (PDF). ProQuest, LLC/Reed Publishing (Nederland), B.V. 2010. p. D-564. Retrieved July 16, 2015.
  3. ^ "WFVA History Grid". FCCData.
  4. ^ "Facility Technical Data for WFVA". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  5. ^ "WFVA Facility Record". Federal Communications Commission, audio division. Retrieved July 16, 2015.
  6. ^ Radio-Locator.com/WFVA-AM
  7. ^ "Fredericksburg Nationals ink radio deal". Potomac Local. Potomac Local Media, LLC. February 28, 2020. Retrieved March 16, 2020.
  8. ^ "2020 Minor League Baseball Season Shelved". Minor League Baseball. June 30, 2020. Retrieved August 22, 2020.
  9. ^ Broadcasting Yearbook 1940 page 162
  10. ^ "Lewis, Multiple AM Owner, dies" (PDF). Broadcasting. 28 October 1957. p. 74. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
  11. ^ "Obituary" (PDF). Television Digest. October 1957. p. 6. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
  12. ^ "Marion P. Lewis". Free Lance-Star. 14 April 2001. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
  13. ^ "WLXW Purchase: Lewis Buys for $70,000" (PDF). Telecasting Yearbook. 1956. p. 340. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
  14. ^ Broadcasting Yearbook 1967 page B-170
  15. ^ Broadcasting & Cable Yearbook 1994 page B-386
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