WFLV (90.7 FM) is a contemporary Christian formatted radio station in West Palm Beach, Florida, owned by the Educational Media Foundation and branded as K-Love. WFLV airs Contemporary worship music on its HD2 subchannel, branded as Air1.
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| Broadcast area | West Palm Beach, Florida |
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| Frequency | 90.7 MHz (HD Radio) |
| Branding | K-Love |
| Programming | |
| Format | Contemporary Christian |
| Subchannels | HD2: Air1 (Contemporary worship music) |
| Affiliations | K-Love |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Educational Media Foundation |
| WMLV, WDLV | |
| History | |
First air date | November 24, 1969 (as WHRS-FM) |
Former call signs | WHRS-FM (1969–1985) WXEL (1985–2011) WPBI (2011–2015) |
Call sign meaning | W Florida LoVe |
| Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 58363 |
| Class | C1 |
| ERP | 38,000 watts |
| HAAT | 340 meters (1078 feet) |
Transmitter coordinates | 26°35′20″N 80°12′44″W / 26.58889°N 80.21222°W |
| Translator(s) | See § Translators |
| Links | |
Public license information | |
| Webcast | Listen Live Listen Live (HD2) |
| Website | klove.com air1.com (HD2) |
History
editThe station signed on in 1969 as WHRS-FM, an outreach of the School District of Palm Beach County to the large number of migrant families in the Palm Beaches. (Its calls represented one of its public schools, Hagen Road Elementary School.) It joined the then-new National Public Radio network in 1972. Originally airing a mix of classical music and fine arts programming with Spanish and bilingual programming in the mornings, it gradually evolved into a typical NPR classical music and fine arts station. In 1981, WHRS was sold to South Florida Public Telecommunications, the community group that owned the license for the area's new PBS station, WWPF-TV, which changed its calls to WHRS-TV before signing on in 1982. In 1985, the two stations changed their call letters to WXEL-FM-TV. Barry University bought the stations in 1997.
In April 2005, Barry announced a pending purchase of both WXEL and WXEL-TV to a group consisting of Educational Broadcasting Corporation (owners of New York City's WNET and WLIW) and the Community Broadcast Foundation of Palm Beach and the Treasure Coast, a local volunteer organization. Barry University decided to terminate the sale in May 2008.
Another deal to sell WXEL radio, this time to American Public Media, doing business as Classical South Florida, was reached on April 20, 2010 after receiving approval from the station's trustees. The sale closed on May 25, 2011 and, as WXEL-TV was not included in the deal, the call letters of the radio station were changed to WPBI. APM operated the station as a full-time satellite of its Miami station, WKCP.
With the sale, all NPR news programming moved to WPBI's HD Radio subchannel. A low-powered translator, W270AD in West Palm Beach, relays the subchannel's schedule; it had previously been used to simulcast WKCP.[2] Most of the market gets at least grade B coverage from WLRN-FM in Miami or WQCS Fort Pierce.
Translators
edit| Call sign | Frequency | City of license | FID | ERP (W) | HAAT | Class | FCC info | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| W270AD | 101.9 FM | West Palm Beach, Florida | 68119 | 250 | 113 m (371 ft) | D | LMS | – |
| W284CR | 104.7 FM | West Palm Beach, Florida | 21103 | 250 | 113 m (371 ft) | D | LMS | Relays HD2 |
References
edit- ^ "Facility Technical Data for WFLV". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ Kleinberg, Eliot (April 20, 2010). "WXEL sold to Broward-based classical FM radio station". The Palm Beach Post. Retrieved April 21, 2010.
External links
edit- Facility details for Facility ID 58363 (WFLV) in the FCC Licensing and Management System
- WFLV in Nielsen Audio's FM station database
- W284CR at FCCdata.org