W241AP is a

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formatted

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licensed to

Midlothian, Virginia Midlothian ( ) is an unincorporated area in Chesterfield County, Virginia, U.S. Settled as a coal town, Midlothian village experienced suburbanization effects and is now part of the western suburbs of Richmond, Virginia south of the James Rive ...

, serving Central Virginia. W241AP is owned and operated by Audacy, Inc.

History

The station signed on as a translator for

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, Lib ...

's WRVL in 2004, on 96.1 MHz, using the callsign W241AP. In 2007, the station moved to

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and was reallocated to 106.1 MHz with 10 watts power, taking the callsign W295BF. In April 2013, Liberty sold the station to Clear Channel Communications, which relocated the station to Midlothian and moved it back to 96.1 MHz with 145 watts power. On April 15, 2013, Clear Channel debuted a satellite-fed classic rock format on the station. The branding, ''96.1 The Planet'', was designed to echo

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's long-time classic rock station, WKLR, which broadcasts a full-power signal at 96.5 MHz. WKLR had moved to a more current rock format as ''Rock 96.5'' by the time Clear Channel brought ''96.1 The Planet'' online. As a translator is not legally permitted to originate its own programming, by U.S. Federal Communications Commission regulation, W241AP relays

WRVQ WRVQ (94.5 FM "Q94") is a commercial radio station licensed to Richmond, Virginia, and serving Central Virginia. WRVQ is owned and operated by Audacy, Inc. It airs a Top 40 (CHR) radio format. The syndicated Elvis Duran show from former sis ...

- HD2. The station resumed its original W241AP callsign on April 26, 2013. On November 1, 2017,

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announced that W241AP, along with all of their sister stations in Richmond and

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, would be sold to

Entercom Audacy, Inc. is an American broadcasting company based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1968 as Entercom Communications Corporation, it is the second largest radio company in the United States, owning 235 radio stations across 48 media ...

due to that company's merger with

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. The sale was completed on December 19, 2017. On January 1, 2018, W241AP changed their format from classic rock to a simulcast of news/talk-formatted WRVA (1140 AM).WRVA Returns to FM
Radioinsight - January 4, 2018

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* * {{Entercom 241AP News and talk radio stations in the United States Radio stations established in 2004 2004 establishments in Virginia Audacy, Inc. radio stations