WRJR
radio station in Claremont, Virginia
WRJR (670 AM) is an adult album alternative formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Claremont, Virginia, serving Hampton Roads. WRJR is owned by Stu-Comm, Inc.
670 AM is a United States clear-channel frequency on which WSCR in Chicago and KDLG in Dillingham, Alaska, both share Class A status. WRJR must reduce power from sunset to sunrise to prevent interference to the nighttime skywave signals of the Class A stations.
WRJR is a full-time repeater of WNRN-FM, based in Charlottesville.
History
The station's initial construction permit was issued in 1989. After 7 years and two sales of the permit, WVNS signed on in August 1997 with an all-news format. The first owner was longtime Norfolk-area talk show host Pat Murphy, who had launched WVNZ in Richmond with the same format earlier in the year. Programming was largely sourced from AP Radio and Bloomberg Radio, as well as traffic and weather every 10 minutes and simulcasts of WAVY-TV's noon and 6 PM newscasts. In 1999, Murphy sold to Chesapeake-Portsmouth Broadcasting Corporation, which flipped to a gospel and Christian teaching format.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “WRJR” as radio station in Claremont, Virginia. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
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Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7955095. Authority coordinates are 37.175, -76.897. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1989, 1997 and 1999.
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