WLJV (89.5 MHz) is a

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, serving the City of Fredericksburg along with Spotsylvania and

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Counties in

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. WLJV is owned by

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, and broadcasts the

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from the co-owned K-Love Network.

History

In 2005, WWED

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the air. It was owned by the religious-based Educational Media Corporation of

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. (The Educational Media Corporation is not related to the current owner, the Educational Media Foundation.) The station ran various genres of

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and

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music until 2012. It then changed to a

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format. During this time, WWED's programming was

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on WWEM in

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, serving the Lynchburg

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. In June 2014, Educational Media Corporation sold both stations.

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announced a deal to purchase WWED for $375,000, making it a simulcast of

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member station

WAMU WAMU (88.5 FM) is a public news/ talk station that services the greater Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. It is owned by American University, and its studios are located near the campus in northwest Washington. WAMU has been the primary Nati ...

in Washington, D.C. WAMU purchased the station in order to compete with

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, which had signed on repeater WQIQ as the area's first NPR station the previous year. The changeover to WAMU programming was made in October 2014, including a

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change to WYAU. WAMU sold the station to

on October 4, 2017, for $400,000. On December 7, WAMU unexpectedly took WYAU

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, as it was starting a

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and believed it would be unethical to solicit pledges from those who would lose access to its programming. The sale was granted on November 28 and closed on December 21, at which point the station changed its call sign to WLJV. WLJV returned to air with K-Love programming on January 5, 2018.

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