WLXK (88.3 FM) is a

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broadcasting a

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format airs the K-LOVE programming format from Rocklin, California. Previously, it simulcasted

WRCM WRCM (91.9 MHz) is a listener-supported, non-commercial FM radio station licensed to Wingate, North Carolina and serving the Charlotte metropolitan area. It airs a Contemporary Christian radio format and identifies itself as " K-LOVE". It is own ...

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when it was owned by

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. Licensed to

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, United States, the station is currently owned by the

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Gardner–Webb University Gardner–Webb University (Gardner–Webb, GWU, or GW) is a private Baptist university in Boiling Springs, North Carolina. It is affiliated with the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina (Southern Baptist Convention). It was founded as Boili ...

radio station WGWG signed on in 1974 with

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and "The Afternoon

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Show". The signal increased to 50,000 watts in 1994.

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began in 1998. By 1999, the format included music performed live in the studio, talk shows, and high school football. The music format changed from

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in 2010. Gardner–Webb announced the sale of the 88.3 frequency and the move by the radio station to online-only June 28, 2013. On October 6, 2014, it was announced that then-WRZM, along with WRCM and its translators, were being sold to

EMF Broadcasting 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 large ...

. The deal closed on December 19, 2014, a day later than expected because of last-minute legal issues. WRCM's General Manager Joe Paulo signed the station off as a local broadcasting entity with a prayer and Chris Rice's rendition of "

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" at 4:32 p.m. At that point, WRCM and WRZM flipped its programming to the national K-LOVE network. K-LOVE later changed the call letters of WRZM to WLXK later that year, which is now known as "K-Love Greenville-Spartanburg".

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