WRKV (88.9 FM) is a

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broadcasting a Contemporary Christian music format. Licensed to

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, United States, the station serves the

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. The station is owned by Educational Media Foundation and features programming from K-Love. WRKV broadcasts in the HD radio format.

History

In 1968, Shaw University became the first

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college to own a radio station, broadcasting a

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/Community Interest format as WSHA. At first, the station used an antenna on top of a building on the downtown campus, but in the late 1990s, a new tower was built in southeast Raleigh near

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in Fayetteville, North Carolina moved from 89.1 FM to 91.9 FM to allow WSHA to increase power. WFSS was bought by WUNC and now is part of the WUNC network. In March 2018, Shaw University announced that it would sell the WSHA broadcast license to the Educational Media Foundation. The sale did not include the station's tower, call letters, or equipment; the university's interim president, Paulette Dillard, stated that Shaw intended to continue to stream jazz music on WSHA's website as an

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station. On July 26, 2018, the sale took effect. On August 7, 2018, the call letters were changed to WRKV.

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