City | Dexter, Maine |
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Broadcast area | Bangor, Maine |
Branding | K-Love |
Slogan | Positive & Encouraging |
Frequency | 102.1 MHz |
First air date | 1993 |
Format | Contemporary Christian |
ERP | 27,000 watts |
HAAT | 205.0 meters |
Class | C2 |
Facility ID | 28685 |
Transmitter coordinates | 45°2′40″N 69°15′1″W / 45.04444°N 69.25028°W |
Former callsigns | WGUY (1989–2009) |
Owner | Educational Media Foundation |
Sister stations | WKVV |
WKVZ (102.1 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a Contemporary Christian format. Licensed to Dexter, Maine, United States, the station serves the Bangor area. The station is owned by the Educational Media Foundation and features programming from the K-LOVE Network.
Before becoming WKVZ in 2009, the 102.1 FM frequency in Dexter was an oldies station using the call letters WGUY-FM, which went on the air in 1993. In December 2001, the station changed to a satellite smooth jazz format, then reverted to the oldies format in March 2003. In September 2008, it began simulcasting on co-owned WFZX before being sold to Educational Media Foundation and changing formats in February 2009 to K-LOVE's christian music format. The station carried University of Maine men's and women's basketball for the 2007 season before moving to WAEI.