WKFV (107.3 FM) is a

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broadcasting a

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format. Licensed to

Clinton, North Carolina Clinton is a city in, and the county seat of, Sampson County, North Carolina, United States. The population of Clinton is 8,639 according to the 2010 Census. Clinton is named for Richard Clinton, a Brigadier General of the North Carolina mili ...

, United States, it serves the Fayetteville area. The station is currently owned by

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, airing their K-LOVE format.

History

WKFV signed on as WCLN-FM in 1984. At one time, its format was

urban contemporary Urban contemporary music, also known as urban music, hip hop, urban pop, or just simply urban, is a music radio format. The term was coined by New York radio DJ Frankie Crocker in the early to mid-1970s as a synonym for Black music. Urban contem ...

, and the call letters were once WMXS. Larry Carr of Clinton operated WCLN, a daytime-only station on 1170, and WCLN-FM (then at 107.1 FM) prior to the 1991 purchase of the 16-year-old stations by Willis Broadcasting Corp. of

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. The stations' format would be

adult contemporary Adult contemporary music (AC) is a form of radio-played popular music, ranging from 1960s vocal and 1970s soft rock music to predominantly ballad-heavy music of the present day, with varying degrees of easy listening, pop, soul, R&B, quie ...

music and

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. WCLN and WCLN-FM were

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when the FM station increased its power from 3000 to 25,000 watts and moved to 107.3 FM to better cover Fayetteville. By 1997, WCLN was airing

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music separately from the FM. In 2000, WCLN-FM relocated its tower from Salemburg, NC to its current location near Stedman, NC. In conjunction with the tower relocation, the station was granted FCC approval to relocate its Main Studio to Fayetteville, NC. 2004 brought leadership changes to the station. The format drifted from Inspiration to Adult Contemporary (AC) Christian music, becoming a Radio & Records reporting station in early 2005.Radio and Records, ''Reporting Stations'', http://www.radioandrecords.com . Effective December 15, 2017,

closed on the purchase of WCLN-FM from Christian Listening Network for $1.2 million. The same day, the station changed its call sign to WKFV.

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* KFV K-Love radio stations Educational Media Foundation radio stations KFV {{NorthCarolina-radio-station-stub