City | Marion, Virginia |
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Broadcast area | Southwest Virginia |
Branding | "FM94 Super Country" |
Slogan | "Today's Best & Most Country" |
Frequency | 93.9 MHz |
First air date | 1961 |
Format | Country |
Power | 100,000 Watts Horizontal 95,140 Watts Vertical |
HAAT | 452 Meters |
Class | C |
Facility ID | 63711 |
Transmitter coordinates | 36°54′4.0″N 81°32′35.0″W / 36.901111°N 81.543056°W |
Callsign meaning | Wonderful Mountain Empire of Virginia |
Owner | Glenwood Communications Corporation (Holston Valley Broadcasting Corporation) |
Sister stations | WKPT, WKTP, WOPI, WRZK, WTFM, WUKZ, WVEK-FM |
Webcast | WMEV-FM Webstream |
Website | WMEV-FM Online |
WMEV-FM is a Country formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Marion, Virginia, serving Southwestern Virginia. WMEV-FM is owned and operated by Glenwood Communications Corporation, through subsidiary Holston Valley Broadcasting Corporation.
WMEV-FM's signal, which broadcasts with an effective radiated power of 100,000 watts, covers parts of Virginia, Tennessee, West Virginia, North Carolina, and Kentucky.
WMEV-FM signed on June 21, 1961. Bob and Stella Wolfenden started WMEV-AM and WMEV-FM, selling them in 1982 to Marion natives Hugh and Barbara Gwyn, who increased the FM's signal strength. In 1998, Holston Valley Broadcasting bought the stations.