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formatted radio station, licensed to
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, and is the Air 1 radio affiliate for
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and the Connecticut Panhandle. The station is owned by
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and its transmitter is located in
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.


History

WARW went on the air in 1947 as WSTC-FM licensed to
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, and simulcasting WSTC. On February 19, 1974, the call letters were changed to WYRS and the station began programming an automated beautiful music format aimed at women using the moniker "Yours 96.7". At 6:00 p.m. on September 2, 1980 WYRS switched to a
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format after WRVR in
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had switched formats from jazz to
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. On December 17, 1981, the station was sold to Radio Stamford Inc. The call letters were changed to WJAZ in 1987. In 1990, the format was changed to an
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format of songs from 1954 to 1973 and the call letters changed to WQQQ with branding as "Q-96.7". From 1992 to 2006, the station was known as WKHL, branded as "Kool 96.7", with no change in format. On March 29, 2006, the station changed from oldies to classic hits as ''96.7 The Coast'' under the WCTZ calls. The
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approved an allocations shift to Port Chester, New York, in December 2006 which allowed the station greater access to New York City; at the time, the station still marketed itself strictly to a
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audience. On November 5, 2010,
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announced they would be purchasing WCTZ and moving the transmitter to the Trump Plaza in New Rochelle, serving as the
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affiliate for New York City with the call letters WKLV-FM; the sale was completed in mid-May 2011, after which the station went silent for a few weeks to relocate its transmitter. On February 13, 2019,
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and five other
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stations were sold to the
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-based nonprofit broadcaster,
Educational Media Foundation Educational Media Foundation (formerly EMF Broadcasting, abbreviated EMF) is an American nonprofit Christian media ministry based in Franklin, a suburb of Nashville. EMF is the parent company of K-LOVE and Air1—the world's largest contempor ...
(EMF) for $103.5 million. After the sale received final approval by the FCC, EMF announced that WPLJ and the other Cumulus stations acquired would all begin broadcasting K-Love on June 1 at midnight local time; this was later moved up to May 31 at 7:00 p.m., five hours earlier than originally planned. EMF's acquisition of WPLJ created a
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for their non-profit enterprise in the New York City market. Between May 31 and July 10, 2019, EMF programmed both WKLV-FM and WPLJ with K-Love programming, but this was not a true
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, as a time-delay existed between both stations. On July 11, 2019, the duplicated programming arrangement ceased as EMF swapped the WKLV-FM call-sign with their K-Love affiliate for Butler, Alabama, WMKQ. Simultaneously, EMF discontinued K-Love programming over 96.7 FM and replaced it with a looping message stating that K-Love programming for the New York City market had moved exclusively to WPLJ and that sister network Air 1 would soon be launched on 96.7. On July 19, 2019, Air 1 programming began on the station, which concurrently changed its call letters to WARW (transferred from the Air 1 station in Remsen, New York). On July 26, 2019, WARW moved "K-Love Classics" from 96.7 HD-3 to 96.7 HD-2, and Radio Nueva Vida started broadcasting on the HD3 subchannel.


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* {{Air 1 ARW (FM) Radio stations established in 1947 1947 establishments in New York (state) Air1 radio stations Educational Media Foundation radio stations ARW (FM) Mass media in Stamford, Connecticut Port Chester, New York