W241AP is a

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formatted

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licensed to

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, serving Central Virginia. W241AP is owned and operated by

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History

The station signed on as a translator for

Liberty University Liberty University (LU), known simply as Liberty, is a Private university, private Evangelicalism in the United States, evangelical Christian university in Lynchburg, Virginia, United States. It is affiliated with the Southern Baptist Conservativ ...

WRVL WRVL (88.3 MHz) is a non-commercial radio station licensed to Lynchburg, Virginia, serving the New River Valley. WRVL is owned and operated by Liberty University and was founded by Jerry Falwell. It broadcasts a Christian Contemporary radio ...

in 2004, on 96.1 MHz, using the callsign W241AP. In 2007, the station moved to

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and was reallocated to 106.1 MHz with 10 watts power, taking the callsign W295BF. In April 2013, Liberty sold the station to Clear Channel Communications, which relocated the station to Midlothian and moved it back to 96.1 MHz with 145 watts power. On April 15, 2013, Clear Channel debuted a satellite-fed classic rock format on the station. The branding, ''96.1 The Planet'', was designed to echo

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's long-time classic rock station, WKLR, which broadcasts a full-power signal at 96.5 MHz. WKLR had moved to a more current rock format as ''Rock 96.5'' by the time Clear Channel brought ''96.1 The Planet'' online. As a translator is not legally permitted to originate its own programming, by

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regulation, W241AP relays

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- HD2. The station resumed its original W241AP callsign on April 26, 2013. On November 1, 2017,

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announced that W241AP, along with all of their sister stations in Richmond and

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, would be sold to

Entercom Audacy, Inc. is an American broadcasting company based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1968 as Entercom Communications Corp., it is the second largest radio company in the United States, owning over 220 radio stations across 47 media ...

due to that company's merger with CBS Radio. The sale was completed on December 19, 2017. On January 1, 2018, W241AP changed their format from classic rock to a simulcast of news/talk-formatted WRVA (1140 AM).WRVA Returns to FM
Radioinsight - January 4, 2018

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* * {{Entercom 241AP News and talk radio stations in the United States Radio stations established in 2004 2004 establishments in Virginia Audacy, Inc. radio stations