WCHV (AM)
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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 | 1260 kHz |
| First air date | October 24, 1929 |
| Format | News/Talk/Sports |
| Power | 5,000 watts daytime 2,500 watts nighttime |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 19838 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 38°6′52.0″N 78°27′18.0″W / 38.114444°N 78.455000°W |
| Callsign meaning | W CHarlottesVille |
| Former callsigns | WEHC (1929–1935) |
| Former frequencies | 1370 kHz (1929) 1200 kHz (1930–1931) 1350 kHz (1931–1935) 1420 kHz (1935–1941) 1450 kHz (1941–1944) 1240 kHz (1944–1955) |
| Affiliations |
Fox News Radio Premiere Radio Networks Wall Street Journal Radio Network |
| Owner | Monticello Media (Monticello Media, LLC) |
| Sister stations | WCHV-FM, WCYK, WHTE, WKAV, WZGN |
| Webcast | WCHV Webstream |
| Website | WCHV Online |
WCHV is a news/talk-formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Charlottesville, Virginia, serving Charlottesville and Albemarle County, Virginia. WCHV is owned and operated by Monticello Media.
What would become Charlottesville's first radio station originated some two hundred miles away. WEHC, owned by Emory and Henry College in Emory, Virginia, signed on October 24, 1929, on 1370 kHz. Behind WRVA Richmond, it was the second radio station in the state to commence operation. The station was run mostly by students and represented before the FCC by faculty member W. Byron Brown. In fall 1932, during the depths of the Great Depression, the college sold the station to Brown's Community Broadcasting Corporation for $5,000 (equivalent to $87,768 in 2016). Brown then filed to relocate to Charlottesville. The last broadcast from Emory was on December 2, when the station filed to go silent in preparation for the move.
Terrestrial college radio returned to Emory in 1992 with the sign-on of an FM station, which also took the callsign WEHC.
The new station was built and on the air on 1350 kHz in Charlottesville in September 1933, but did not change to its current callsign until 1935.
With no network affiliations yet available, WCHV inaugurated its own network on February 1, 1936: the Virginia Broadcasting System, with affiliates WBTM Danville, WLVA Lynchburg, WGH Newport News, and WPHR Richmond. A planned 16-hour day of common programming failed in three months due to the high cost of telephone lines, although the network links remained to carry advertised broadcasts of Virginia Cavaliers sports and other one-off programming. It is unknown when exactly the network dissolved.
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