WAIW is a
contemporary worship music
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formatted
broadcast
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radio station
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licensed to
Winchester, Virginia
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.
WAIW is owned and operated by
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 ...
.
Coverage area
With the station's transmitter located atop a mountain, WAIW's signal can be heard throughout the
Shenandoah Valley
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, Central and
Northern Virginia
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, the
Eastern Panhandle and
Potomac Highlands of
West Virginia
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, parts of Central and
Western Maryland
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and Metro
Washington, D.C.
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History
Former owner Centennial Broadcasting filed an agreement with the
Federal Communications Commission
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(FCC) on October 6, 2020, to sell the former WINC-FM to
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 $1.75 million.
WINC-FM's existing music programming moved to the co-owned
WXBN (105.5 FM) and
WZFC (104.9 FM) ahead of the sale; Centennial also retained the rights to the WINC callsign and branding.
On November 18, EMF filed to operate WINC-FM as a non-commercial station upon closing.
The sale closed on December 29.
At 2:37 pm that same day, WINC-FM abruptly signed off and around an hour later, at 3:29 pm, the station signed back on IDing with the callsign WLWX and airing EMF's
Air1
Air1 is an American Christian radio network owned by the Educational Media Foundation (EMF), a non-profit Christian ministry. It primarily broadcasts contemporary worship music, and is a sister to the EMF's K-Love network.
History
On July 15, ...
network.
Sister station
WAIW in Wheaton, Illinois, and WLWX "traded" callsigns on January 11, 2021.
The application to operate the station as non-commercial was approved one day later.
References
External links
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FCC History Cards for WAIW*
{{Religious Radio Stations in Virginia
1946 establishments in Virginia
Air1 radio stations
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Radio stations established in 1946
Winchester, Virginia