WKVG (FM)
radio station in Greenville, South Carolina
WKVG (94.5 MHz) is a noncommercial educational FM radio station licensed to Greenville, South Carolina, United States, serving Upstate South Carolina including the Greenville-Spartanburg market. WKVG is owned and operated by the Educational Media Foundation, and is an affiliate of K-Love.
WKVG has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 100,000 watts, the maximum for most FM stations. The transmitter is on Tower Road in Travelers Rest. WKVG broadcasts using HD Radio technology. WKVG is north western South Carolina's primary entry point station for the Emergency Alert System.
History
WMUU-FM
Bob Jones University (BJU) applied for an AM license in May 1948. It was granted a construction permit with a new station signing on the air on September 15, 1949. The call sign was WMUU and it broadcast at 1260 kilocycles (today's WPJF). The programming was sacred and classical music, along with dramatic readings, and evangelical Christian preaching.
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