WCHV-FM
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| City | Charlottesville, Virginia |
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| Broadcast area |
Charlottesville, Virginia Albemarle County, Virginia |
| Branding | "C-Ville 107.5 and 1260" |
| Frequency | 107.5 MHz |
| First air date | January 12, 1996 |
| Format | News/Talk/Sports |
| Power | 210 Watts |
| HAAT | 338 meters (1,109 ft) |
| Class | A |
| Facility ID | 61716 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 37°59′5.0″N 78°28′49.0″W / 37.984722°N 78.480278°W |
| Callsign meaning | W CHarlottesVille |
| Former callsigns | WLJL (1993-1996) WUMX (1996-2004) WCJZ (2004-2007) WWTJ (2007-2011) WCHV-FM (2011-Present) |
| Affiliations |
Fox News Radio Premiere Radio Networks Wall Street Journal Radio Network |
| Owner |
Monticello Media (Monticello Media, LLC) |
| Sister stations | WCHV, WCYK, WHTE, WKAV, WZGN |
| Webcast | WCHV-FM Webstream |
| Website | WCHV-FM Online |
WCHV-FM is a News/Talk formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Charlottesville, Virginia, serving Charlottesville and Albemarle County, Virginia. WCHV-FM is owned and operated by Monticello Media.
The original permit for 107.5 FM in Charlottesville was applied for in 1992 by Washington, D.C. resident Deborah M. Royster's Spectrum Broadcasting Corporation. This permit was assigned the callsign WLJL. After several extensions, the station went on air in January 1996, followed by a callsign change to WUMX. The station's initial format was adult contemporary under the branding "Mix 107.5". Soon afterwards, Royster sold the station to David G. Mitchell's Air Virginia, Inc. Mitchell was at the time part-owner of two AM stations in Pennsylvania, and is currently the general manager of WUVA (92.7 MHz).
In 2000, Clear Channel tried to purchase the station from Air Virginia. The sale was held up by the Federal Communications Commission on anti-trust concerns; the company already owned WCYK-FM (99.7 MHz), WFFX (102.3 MHz), WVSY (101.9 MHz), WCHV (1260 kHz) and WKAV (1400 kHz). Clear Channel and Charlottesville's second-largest owner, Eure Communications – then-owners of WWWV (97.5 MHz), WINA (1070 kHz), and WQMZ (95.1 MHz) – would control nearly 95 per cent of the market's advertising revenue if the sale proceeded. In March 2002, the FCC announced its first public hearing on ownership concentration since 1960 to discuss the matter. The sale was ultimately approved. Ironically, the Department of Justice forced Eure to divest WCHV and WKAV – ultimately to Clear Channel – under similar anti-trust concerns several years earlier.
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