WKHF (93.7

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) is a

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. It is owned by the Truth Broadcasting Corporation and it airs a

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. National religious leaders heard on WKHF include

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, John MacArthur,

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and

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. Some programming is provided by the

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. WKHF has an

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(ERP) of 1,600

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s as a Class A station. The

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is off Candlers Mountain Road in Lynchburg.Radio-Locator.com/WKHF
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History

A company organized as United States CP, LLC, owned by W. Philip Robinson, applied to the

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(FCC) for this station's original

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on October 19, 2009. The FCC granted the permit on December 15, 2009, with a scheduled expiration date of December 15, 2012. The station was assigned the

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"WKHF" by the FCC on October 29, 2010. With construction completed and testing set to commence, the station applied for its license to cover on March 2, 2011. , this application was accepted for filing by the FCC and was awaiting further action by the commission. After several days of equipment testing and broadcasting under

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, the station began regular broadcasting as "93-7 KHF" at on the evening of March 25, 2011. The station was simulcast on WZZI, from June 2012 until November 2, 2012. WKHF was later operated under a

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by Radiowerks Broadcasting of Central Virginia, which was also working on a deal to purchase the station. However, in June 2014, WKHF and sister station WJVR were sold to Todd Robinson's WVJT, LLC for $200,000. The sale was consummated on July 31, 2014. On April 14, 2021, WKHF was sold to Lynchburg Media Partners. A day later, WKHF dropped its inaugural hot AC format and began stunting with

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, still under the "93.7 KHF" branding. On May 4, 2021, WKHF ended its Christmas music stunt and launched a gold-based

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format, branded as "Rebel 93.7". The sale to Lynchburg Media Partners, at a price of $500,000, was consummated on September 17, 2021. Truth Broadcasting Corporation purchased WKHF from Lynchburg Media Partners for $480,000 in 2022, and began operating the station under a time brokerage agreement on April 1. WKHF would join its "Truth Network", which would expand to the Roanoke side of the market via

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that December.

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