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In August 1908, a white mob attacked Springfield, Illinois’s Black community, destroying homes and businesses and lynching two Black men. National outrage over the violence helped spur the movement that created the NAACP the following year.
MORE →Reflects the personal views, recollections, and perspective of the author, Mike Davis.
This is a personal recollection on the Move fire on May 13, 1985
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| Frequency | 94.3 MHz |
| Branding | K-Love |
| Programming | |
| Language | English |
| Format | Contemporary Christian |
| Network | K-Love |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Educational Media Foundation |
| History | |
First air date | November 2, 1978 |
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| Technical information[2] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| 16819 | |
| Class | A |
| ERP | 2,000 watts |
| HAAT | 175 meters (574 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 38°44′31.4″N 77°50′5.9″W / 38.742056°N 77.834972°W |
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Public license information | |
| Webcast | Listen live |
| Website | klove |
WLZV (94.3 FM) – branded K-Love – is a non-commercial contemporary Christian radio station licensed to serve Buckland, Virginia. Owned and operated by the Educational Media Foundation, WLZV does not broadcast any local programming, functioning as the Northern Virginia network affiliate for K-Love; WLZV also services the southwestern portion of the Washington metropolitan area.
WQRA signed on November 2, 1978, as a local station serving Warrenton, Virginia, with middle-of-the-road music and local news coverage.[3]
In 1996, the station was sold by Dettra Broadcasting to Bill Parris' Radio Broadcasting Communications, owner of WINX (1600 AM) in Rockville, Maryland.[4] Parris flipped the station in September 1996 to WINX-FM, a simulcast of WINX's oldies music.[5]
The station became WTOP-FM in September 1997; it was the first FM outlet of all-news WTOP, which at the time was on 1500 AM.[6] In February 1998, Bonneville International, the owner of WTOP, bought it from Parris. Bonneville subsequently traded the station and cash to Syd Abel in exchange for his higher-powered 107.7 FM.[7] The transaction was completed the next month, and Abel moved over his "rocking country" format, branded as WUPP "Up Country".[8] One year later, on April 28, 1999, Abel flipped the station to WPLC "The Pulse", playing hot adult contemporary crossed with alternative rock hits.[9]
Mega Communications purchased the station in 2000. Mega first broadcast a format of Spanish love songs, renaming the station WPLC-FM as they added a simulcast with 1050 AM in Washington, which became WPLC.[10] The following year, Mega changed the callsign to WBPS-FM and joined it with WBZS-FM 92.7 in Prince Frederick, Maryland, in a Spanish adult contemporary simulcast branded as "La Nueva Mega". In 2005, the stations switched to Spanish oldies as "Mega Clasica".[11]
Washington Redskins owner Daniel Snyder bought the two stations, as well as Mega's WKDL (730 AM) in Alexandria, Virginia, in 2006. The new three-station network ran a new simulcast as "Triple X ESPN Radio", creating an ESPN Radio-based sports talk competitor to WTEM (980 AM). WBPS-FM changed to WWXX to reflect the branding.[12] In 2008, Snyder bought WTEM itself, and the network became simply "ESPN 980" with no other changes to the two FM stations.[13]
Snyder began selling off his radio properties during 2017; Educational Media Foundation bought 94.3 FM and flipped it to WLZV with their national contemporary Christian music network, K-Love.[14]
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WLZV (94.3 FM) – branded K-Love – is a non-commercial contemporary Christian radio station licensed to serve Buckland, Virginia. Owned and operated by the Educational Media Foundation, WLZV does not broadcast any local programming, functioning as the Northern Virginia network affiliate for K-Love; WLZV also services the southwestern portion of the Washington metropolitan area.
WLVW (107.3 FM) – branded as K-Love – is a non-commercial Christian adult contemporary radio station licensed to serve Washington, D.C. Owned and operated by the Educational Media Foundation, WLVW does not broadcast any local programming, functioning as the Washington metropolitan area network affiliate for K-Love. The station's transmitter resides in the district's northwest quadrant. In addition to a standard analog transmission, WLVW is available online; the station also broadcasts in the HD Radio format.
WAIW is a contemporary worship music formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Winchester, Virginia. WAIW is owned and operated by Educational Media Foundation.
The Washington metropolitan area is currently the seventh-largest radio market in the United States. While most stations originate within Washington, D.C. proper, this list includes also stations that originate from Northern Virginia and Annapolis, Maryland. Currently, radio stations that primarily serve the Washington metropolitan area include:
Before the 1921 destruction of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, Black residents had created a remarkable center of business and community life. The district included stores, professional offices, entertainment venues and homes owned by Black citizens. Understanding Greenwood means learning what was built—not only what was burned.
MORE →Brown v. Board of Education in 1954.