WAIW (FM)

Last updated
WAIW
Broadcast area
Frequency 92.5 MHz
BrandingAir1
Programming
Format Contemporary worship music [2]
Affiliations Air1
Ownership
Owner Educational Media Foundation [3]
History
First air date
November 18, 1946(78 years ago) (1946-11-18) [4]
Former call signs
  • WINC-FM (1946–1949) [5]
  • WRFL (1949–1979)
  • WQUS (1979–1981)
  • WINC-FM (1981–2020)
  • WLWX (2020–2021) [6]
Technical information [7]
Licensing authority
 FCC
Facility ID 41810
Class B
ERP 22,000 watts
HAAT 434 meters (1,424 ft)
Transmitter coordinates
 38°57′21.3″N78°1′26.9″W / 38.955917°N 78.024139°W / 38.955917; -78.024139 [3]
Links
Public license information
Webcast Listen live (via TuneIn)
Website www.air1.com

WAIW is a contemporary worship music formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Winchester, Virginia. [2] WAIW is owned and operated by Educational Media Foundation. [3] [8]

Contents

Coverage area

With the station's transmitter located atop a mountain, WAIW's signal can be heard throughout the Shenandoah Valley, Central and Northern Virginia, the Eastern Panhandle and Potomac Highlands of West Virginia, parts of Central and Western Maryland and Metro Washington, D.C. [1]

History

Former owner Centennial Broadcasting filed an agreement with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on October 6, 2020, to sell the former WINC-FM to Educational Media Foundation (EMF) for $1.75 million. [9] WINC-FM's existing music programming moved to the co-owned WXBN (105.5 FM) and WZFC (104.9 FM) ahead of the sale; Centennial also retained the rights to the WINC callsign and branding. [10] On November 18, 2020, EMF filed to operate WINC-FM as a non-commercial station upon closing. [11]

The sale closed on December 29, 2020. [8] At 2:37 p.m. that same day, WINC-FM abruptly signed off and around an hour later, at 3:29 p.m., the station signed back on IDing with the callsign WLWX and airing EMF's Air1 network. [6] [12] [13] Sister station WAIW in Wheaton, Illinois, and WLWX "traded" callsigns on January 11, 2021. [14] The application to operate the station as non-commercial was approved one day later. [15]

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References

  1. 1 2 "54 dBu Service Contour for WAIW, Winchester, VA, 92.5 MHz BLH-19910930KD". Federal Communications Commission/OpenStreetMap . January 28, 2016. Retrieved January 12, 2021.
  2. 1 2 "Arbitron Station Information Profiles". Nielsen Audio/Nielsen Holdings . Retrieved January 12, 2021.
  3. 1 2 3 "WAIW Facility Record". Federal Communications Commission, audio division. Retrieved January 12, 2021.
  4. ↑ 1947 Broadcasting Yearbook (PDF). Broadcasting Publications. 1947. p. 236. Retrieved July 29, 2015.
  5. ↑ "August 31 Decisions" (PDF). Broadcasting. September 5, 1949. p. 84.
  6. 1 2 "Call Sign History". Federal Communications Commission, audio division. Retrieved January 12, 2021.
  7. ↑ "Facility Technical Data for WAIW". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  8. 1 2 "Consummation Notice". Federal Communications Commission, audio division. Retrieved January 12, 2021.
  9. ↑ Venta, Lance (October 8, 2020). "Educational Media Foundation Acquires WINC-FM". RadioInsight/RadioBB Networks. Retrieved January 12, 2021.
  10. ↑ Venta, Lance (November 17, 2020). "WINC-FM Begins Frequency Move Ahead Of EMF Sale". RadioInsight/RadioBB Networks. Retrieved January 12, 2021.
  11. ↑ "Modification of a License for FM Application". Federal Communications Commission, audio division. November 19, 2020. Retrieved January 12, 2021.
  12. ↑ "Today's the day. 92.5 FM will switch over". What's Happening in Winchester and Frederick County, Virginia/Facebook. December 29, 2020. Retrieved January 12, 2021.
  13. ↑ Venta, Lance (January 1, 2021). "2020 Post Christmas/New Years Format Change Rundown". RadioInsight/RadioBB Networks. Retrieved January 12, 2021.
  14. ↑ "FCCdata.org - powered by REC - WAIW-FM". REC Networks. Retrieved January 12, 2021.
  15. ↑ "Noncommercial Educational - Authorization". Federal Communications Commission, audio division. January 12, 2021. Retrieved January 12, 2021.
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