WROV-FM
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City | Martinsville, Virginia |
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Broadcast area |
Roanoke-Lynchburg, Virginia New River Valley Southside Virginia |
Branding | 96-3 ROV Rocks |
Slogan | "The Rock of Virginia" |
Frequency |
96.3 MHz (also on HD Radio) |
First air date | January 1950[1] |
Format |
HD1: Classic rock[2] HD2: Alternative rock |
ERP | 14,000 Watts |
HAAT | 633 Meters |
Class | C1 |
Facility ID | 37747 |
Transmitter coordinates | 37°7′0.0″N 80°0′58.0″W / 37.116667°N 80.016111°W |
Callsign meaning | W Rock Of Virginia |
Former callsigns | WMVA-FM (1950–1989) |
Affiliations |
John Boy and Billy Performance Racing Network (PRN Radio) Sixx Sense |
Owner |
iHeartMedia (Capstar TX LLC) |
Sister stations | WJJS, WJJX, WSFF, WSNV, WSFF, WSNZ, WYYD |
Webcast | WROV-FM Webstream |
Website | WROV-FM Online |
WROV-FM (96.3 MHz) is a commercial FM radio station licensed to Martinsville, Virginia. WROV-FM is owned and operated by iHeartMedia[3] and airs a Classic rock radio format. WROV-FM's signal covers the Roanoke-Lynchburg media market, including the New River Valley and the Southside of Virginia.
WROV-FM has studios and offices on Brandon Avenue in Roanoke and its transmitter is in Boones Mill, Virginia.
WROV-HD2
WROV-HD2 carries an Alternative Rock format under the branding "96.7 and 96.9 The Alt Project".[4]
History of call letters
WROV-FM first signed on the air in January 1950 as WMVA-FM.[5] It was a sister station to WMVA and served Martinsville. In 1989, new ownership purchased WMVA-FM and WROV (now WGMN), and undertook a move of WMVA-FM to Roanoke.
The call letters WROV-FM were previously assigned to a station in Roanoke, Virginia. It began broadcasting on 103.7 MHz in 1948. It was a sister station of WROV and duplicated that station's programming.[6] In 1955, WROV radio's ownership had decided to leave broadcasting altogether after the disastrous effort to start WROV-TV; new management saw the FM station as a money pit and turned in the license in June 1957.[7][8]
References
- ↑ http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-YB/2010/D4-2010-BC-YB-7.pdf
- ↑ http://www1.arbitron.com/sip/displaySip.do?surveyID=FA15&band=fm&callLetter=WROV
- ↑ "WROV Facility Record". Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
- ↑ https://hdradio.com/station_guides/widget.php?realid=447 HD Radio Guide for Roanoke-Lynchburg, Virginia
- ↑ Broadcasting Yearbook 1977
- ↑ "WROV-FM Roanoke Va., Starts Program Service" (PDF). Broadcasting. June 14, 1948. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
- ↑ "For the record" (PDF). Broadcasting. July 15, 1957. p. 108.
- ↑ "The Levines Buy WROV". The 1240 WROV History Site.