WVRD (90.5 FM) is a

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broadcasting a

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format. Licensed to Zebulon, North Carolina, United States, the station is currently owned by

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History

Mega-Educational Communications started WAHD in 1990 with a mostly automated

soft adult contemporary Adult contemporary music (AC) is a form of radio-played popular music, ranging from 1960s vocal and 1970s soft rock music to predominantly ballad-heavy music of the 1980s to the present day, with varying degrees of easy listening, pop, soul ...

format. The station was licensed to Wilson, North Carolina, though it barely put a listenable signal there. Later, WAHD played

easy listening Easy listening (including mood music) is a popular music genre and radio format that was most popular during the 1950s to the 1970s. It is related to middle of the road (MOR) music and encompasses instrumental recordings of standards, hit s ...

as "Easy 90.5". In 1991, the station added W260AB, a translator in

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at 99.9 FM. Other formats included CHR/dance and

smooth jazz Smooth jazz is commercially oriented crossover jazz music. Although often described as a "genre", it is a debatable and highly controversial subject in jazz music circles. As a radio format, however, smooth jazz radio became the successor to e ...

; the station signed off in 1999. Calvary Satellite Network, a

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/ ministry service based in

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brought the station back in 2001 as WXJC. On September 19, 2002, WXJC became WAJC.

References

External links

* VRD Liberty University {{NorthCarolina-radio-station-stub