WLUS-FM is a

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formatted

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licensed to

Clarksville, Virginia Clarksville is a town in Mecklenburg county in the U.S. state of Virginia, near the southern border of the commonwealth. The population was 1,139 at the 2010 census. Since the town has numerous buildings of the 18th-, 19th-, and early 20th-cent ...

, serving the

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area. WLUS-FM is owned and operated by Thomas Birch's Birch Broadcasting Corporation, through licensee Lakes Media, LLC. In August 2016, Lakes Media sent an informal objection to the

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alleging that

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W252DK in

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was interfering with reception of WLUS-FM. After nearly a year of debate between Arohi Media, licensee of W252DK, and Lakes Media, the FCC sent a letter requiring that the translator cease operation immediately. The translator's license has been suspended and is no longer found in the FCC database. The FCC has accepted a Petition for Reconsideration filed by Arohi Media on June 1, 2017.

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* LUS Radio stations established in 1984 Country radio stations in the United States {{Virginia-radio-station-stub