WKVR (88.9
FM) is a
radio station
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broadcasting a
contemporary Christian format. Licensed to
Flint, Michigan
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, it is a member of the
K-Love radio network.
History
The station signed on in September 1997
as WGRI with an
urban gospel
Urban/contemporary gospel is a modern subgenre of gospel music. Although the style developed gradually, early forms are generally dated to the 1970s, and the genre was well established by the end of the 1980s. The radio format is pitched prima ...
format. After Gospel Radio International sold the station to the
Educational Media Foundation
Educational Media Foundation (formerly EMF Broadcasting, abbreviated EMF) is an American nonprofit Christian media ministry based in Franklin, Tennessee, a suburb of Nashville.
EMF is the parent company of K-LOVE and Air1—the world's largest ...
, WGRI joined K-Love on October 1, 2001,
and changed its call letters to WAKL on October 29.
The station became WKMF on May 31, 2019,
after EMF moved the
WAKL call sign to a station it had acquired in the
Atlanta
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market.
The station changed its call sign to WKVR on December 6, 2022.
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Contemporary Christian radio stations in the United States
K-Love radio stations
Radio stations established in 1998
1998 establishments in Michigan
Educational Media Foundation radio stations
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