WHRV

WHRV (89.5 FM) is a Public Radio formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Norfolk, Virginia, serving Hampton Roads.[2] It is the flagship National Public Radio member station for Hampton Roads, and is a sister station to the area's PBS member, WHRO-TV. It airs a mix of NPR news and talk programming, jazz, blues, and folk music.

For the Ann Arbor, Michigan radio station that held the call sign WHRV from 1948 to 1963, see WAAM.
WHRV
Broadcast areaHampton Roads
Frequency89.5 FM MHz
(HD Radio)
BrandingWHRV 89.5
Programming
FormatPublic radio
SubchannelsHD2: AAA "AltRadio"
AffiliationsNational Public Radio
American Public Media
Public Radio Exchange
Ownership
OwnerHampton Roads Educational Telecommunications Association
WFOS, WHRE, WHRF, WHRG, WHRJ, WHRL, WHRO-FM, WHRO-TV, WHRX
History
First air date
1973[1]
Former call signs
WTGM (1973-1978)
WHRO-FM (1978-1990)
WHRV (1990-Present)[1]
Call sign meaning
W Hampton Roads Virginia
Technical information
Facility ID25933
ClassB
ERP34,000 watts
HAAT181.7 meters (596 ft)
Transmitter coordinates
36°48′32.0″N 76°30′13.0″W
Links
WebcastWHRV Webstream
WHRV-HD2 Webstream
WebsiteWHRV Online

It is owned by the Hampton Roads Educational Telecommunications Association,[3] a consortium of 19 Hampton Roads and Eastern Shore school districts. Studios are located at the Public Telecommunications Center for Hampton Roads on the campus of Old Dominion University in Norfolk. The transmitter is located in Suffolk, Virginia.

WHRV broadcasts in the HD Radio (hybrid) format.[4]

History

The station first signed on in 1973 as WTGM, owned by the Virginia Cultural Foundation.[1] Within only two years, however, the station ran into severe financial straits, forcing HRETA (then known as the Hampton Roads Educational Television Association) to step in and rescue the station.[5] HRETA changed the calls to WHRO-FM in 1978 to match the television station. In the early 1980s, a feasibility study indicated that a second public radio station could be viable.[1] However, it was not until 1988 that HRETA won a second noncommercial license, on 90.3.[6] On September 21, 1990, 90.3 signed on as a full-time classical music station, taking the WHRO-FM call letters. NPR programming remained on 89.5 under new call letters, WHRV.[7]

HD Radio
WHRV's HD Radio Channels on a SPARC Radio with PSD.
ChannelFormatBranding
HD-1 Public Radio 89.5 WHRV
HD-2 Adult Album Alternative AltRadio

Repeaters

WHRV operates a number of full-powered repeater stations to serve portions of the Eastern Shore and Southside Virginia.

Call signFrequencyCity of licenseERP (W)ClassFCC info
WHRE 91.9 FMEastville, Virginia4,400AFMQ
WHRG 88.5 FMGloucester Point, Virginia9,600B1FMQ
WHRL 88.1 FMEmporia, Virginia4,200AFMQ
WHRX 90.1 FMNassawadox, Virginia46,000BFMQ

Additionally, the station operates a 250 watt translator station, W269BQ, at 101.7 MHz in Virginia Beach, which serves sections of that community that do not get a clear signal from 89.5.

References
  1. 2010 annual report
  2. "Arbitron Station Information Profiles". Nielsen Audio/Nielsen Holdings. Retrieved July 25, 2015.
  3. "WHRV Facility Record". Federal Communications Commission, audio division. Retrieved July 25, 2015.
  4. http://hdradio.com/station_guides/widget.php?id=40 Archived 2016-09-18 at the Wayback Machine HD Radio Guide for Norfolk, Virginia Beach and Newport News
  5. Broadcasting Yearbook 1975 (PDF). ProQuest, LLC/Reed Publishing (Nederland), B.V. 1975. p. 45. Retrieved July 25, 2015.
  6. "Archive of WHRO history page". Archived from the original on 2001-09-14. Retrieved 2001-09-14.
  7. "Call Sign History". Federal Communications Commission, audio division. Retrieved July 25, 2015.


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