WMVK-LP (107.3 FM) is a non-commercial

radio station Radio broadcasting is transmission of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a land-based radio ...

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to serve

Perryville, Maryland Perryville is a town in Cecil County, Maryland, United States. The population was 4,361 at the 2010 census. The town is located near an access for Interstate 95, on the north side of the outlet of the Susquehanna River. History Perryville was fir ...

. The station is owned by the

Maryland Transit Administration The Maryland Transit Administration (MTA) is a state-operated mass transit administration in Maryland, and is part of the Maryland Department of Transportation. The MTA operates a comprehensive transit system throughout the Baltimore-Washingt ...

and licensed to the State of Maryland Department of Transportation. It airs a

Smooth Jazz Smooth jazz is a genre of commercially-oriented crossover jazz and easy listening music that became dominant in the mid 1970s to the early 1990s. History Smooth jazz is a commercially oriented, crossover jazz which came to prominence in the 19 ...

format which includes

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music, transit information, and drive-time commuter reports. The station was assigned the WMVK-LP call letters by the

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on April 3,

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. The station simulcasts the programming from its sister station,

WTTZ-LP WTTZ-LP is a traffic information and smooth jazz formatted broadcast radio station licensed to and serving Baltimore, Maryland. WTTZ-LP is owned and operated by Maryland Transit Administration. WTTZ-LP is also simulcasted on WMVK-LP in Perryvi ...

which is based in the Baltimore Metro Area.

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* MVK-LP MVK-LP Cecil County, Maryland Perryville, Maryland {{Maryland-radio-station-stub