W239BV is a

Classic Country Classic country is a music radio format that specializes in playing mainstream country and western music hits from past decades. Repertoire The radio format specializes in hits from the 1950s through the early 1980s, and focus primarily on innov ...

formatted

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licensed to

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and serves

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. W239BV simulcasts sister station

WKSI-FM WKSI-FM is a Contemporary Hit Radio formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Stephens City, Virginia, serving the Northern Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia. WKSI-FM is owned and operated by iHeartMedi ...

's HD2 feed. W239BV is owned and operated by

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Programming

On May 24, 2013, former owner

Liberty University Liberty University (LU) is a private Baptist university in Lynchburg, Virginia. It is affiliated with the Southern Baptist Conservatives of Virginia (Southern Baptist Convention). Founded in 1971 by Jerry Falwell Sr. and Elmer L. Towns, Liberty i ...

began the process of moving the station's transmitting tower, which hadn't been built at this point, to the same tower as Clear Channel station

. At the time, the station was licensed as W242BG and was to broadcast on 96.3 FM. On August 2, 2013, Liberty University filed an application and an Asset Purchase Agreement with the

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(FCC) to begin the sale of W242BG to Clear Channel. W242BG was sold for $5,000.00 in exchange for Liberty's use of "the HD3 channel of Station

WUSQ-FM WUSQ-FM is a country formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Winchester, Virginia, serving the Northern Shenandoah Valley and the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia The Eastern Panhandle is the eastern of the two panhandles in the U.S ...

" for a "period of eight years from he date of theexecution" of the sale. Liberty would also be given the right to lease tower space on the WUSQ tower at no charge. On August 22, 2013, Clear Channel filed an application moving the station from 96.3 FM to 95.7 FM. The callsign was changed on the same date. W239BV launched on August 22, 2013 and began airing a

hot adult contemporary Adult contemporary music (AC) is a form of radio-played popular music, ranging from 1960s vocal and 1970s soft rock music to predominantly ballad-heavy music of the present day, with varying degrees of easy listening, pop, soul, R&B, quiet ...

format, simulcasting the HD2 subchannel of station

. WKSI-HD2, and in turn W239BV, aired the "Today's Mix" format, one of Clear Channel's

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formats. On November 1, 2013, W239BV switched its format from hot adult contemporary to a seasonal all-Christmas music format, with the "Mix 95-7" branding remaining. The station switched back to hot adult contemporary on December 26. Until December 26, 2020, at 12 Midnight, when W239BV took over the

format, which had been abandoned by crosstown competitor WXBN ahead of sister-station WINC-FM's sale and format change, as "Classic Country 95-7".

References

External links

Classic Country 95.7 Online
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