WFVA (1230 AM) is a

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. WFVA is owned and operated by Centennial Broadcasting. It airs a

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format. The studios, offices and

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are on Mimosa Street in Fredericksburg. The

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stands for Fredericksburg, Virginia. It has kept the same call letters for its eight decades of broadcasting. The station has a local talk and information show in weekday morning

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. The rest of the day is made up of nationally syndicated talk shows from

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with

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'', and '' This Morning, America's First News with Gordon Deal''. Most hours begin with

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. WFVA was scheduled to broadcast all

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History

On September 8, 1939, WFVA first

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. It was originally owned by the Fredericksburg Broadcasting Company. The station was powered at 250

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s and broadcast at 1260 kHz. It was the first radio station in Fredericksburg. By the late 1940s, it had moved to its current dial position, 1230 kHz. It was a

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. In the 1950s, Richard Field Lewis Jr. bought 60% and added it to his Richard Field Lewis Jr. Stations network. In 1960, it signed on an

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station at 101.5 MHz, WFVA-FM. Now known as WBQB, it is still WFVA's

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. Through the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, WFVA carried a full service format, airing middle of the road music, news and talk. By the 1990s, it transitioned to a full-time talk format, airing shows from the ABC Talkradio Network.Broadcasting & Cable Yearbook 1994 page B-386
/ref> WFVA is still affiliated with ABC News Radio.

References

External links

WFVA Website
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