WRVA (AM)
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| City | Richmond, Virginia |
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| Broadcast area | Central Virginia |
| Branding | NewsRadio 1140 WRVA |
| Slogan | Richmond's News, Weather & Traffic |
| Frequency | 1140 kHz |
| Repeater(s) | 98.1-2 WTVR-FM HD2 |
| First air date | 1925 |
| Format | News/Talk/Sports |
| Power | 50,000 watts day and night |
| Class | A |
| Facility ID | 11914 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 37°24′13.0″N 77°18′59.0″W / 37.403611°N 77.316389°W |
| Callsign meaning | W Richmond VirginiA |
| Affiliations | Fox News Radio, Westwood One, TheBlaze Network |
| Owner |
iHeartMedia (CC Licenses, LLC) |
| Sister stations | W241AP, W253BI, WBTJ, WRNL, WRVQ, WRXL, WTVR-FM |
| Webcast | WRVA Webstream |
| Website | WRVA Online |
WRVA (1140 kHz) is a News/Talk/Sports formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Richmond, Virginia, serving Central Virginia. WRVA is owned and operated by iHeartMedia.
Established in 1925, WRVA is one of Virginia's oldest Broadcasting operations and its most powerful AM radio station. WRVA is authorized to broadcast with 50,000 watts as a Clear-channel station from its base of operations near the Virginia State Capitol. For much of its history, WRVA billed itself as the "Voice of Virginia."
Although three-letter call letters were still available when the station was started, "WRVA" was chosen since (W) R VA was short for Richmond, VA. WRVA was launched at 9:00 p.m. on November 2, 1925. Known initially as "Edgeworth Radio", it was owned by Larus and Brother, a tobacco company operating as the "House of Edgeworth." The radio station was originally put on the air as a public service 2 nights per week.
The early WRVA facilities were a small studio in a corner of a warehouse on Richmond's Tobacco Row using a tower mounted on the roof of the building. It soon became a vital and profitable business enterprise.
By 1930, WRVA was on-the-air 7 days a week, 24 hours daily, with broadcasting power increased to 50,000 watts.
In 1935, WRVA built a new transmitter in Mechanicsville, a small community located northeast of Richmond in Hanover County. The new tower for the antenna at this location was the first all-wood self-supporting radio tower in North America. Field tests conducted later indicated that the new tower produced "a 400% increase in dependable night-time service area and a three-fold increase in the daytime area."
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