WRVU
| City | Nashville, Tennessee |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Nashville, Tennessee |
| Frequency | 91.1 MHz (1971–2011) 90.3 MHz HD-3 (2011–2014) Internet only (2014–present) |
| Format | Variety |
| Owner | Vanderbilt Student Communications, Inc. (Vanderbilt University) |
| Sister stations | Vanderbilt Television |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | www |
WRVU is a college radio station broadcasting a Variety radio format. Though it originally broadcast on 91.1 FM, and then broadcast over an HD Radio subchannel, the station currently streams to internet radio listeners. Licensed to Nashville, Tennessee, USA, the station serves Vanderbilt University. The station is currently owned by Vanderbilt Student Communications.
The station is run by student volunteers from VU, although in the past, many of its disc jockeys were Vanderbilt alumni or community volunteers. As with most student-operated college stations, its general focus is to play independent-label music. From the 1970s until the mid-2000s (with the sign-on of WRFN-LP), WRVU was practically the only widely accessible outlet for the area's underground music acts to have their recordings get airtime.
Beginning on June 7, 2011, WRVU moved to online-only broadcasts. This change followed the execution of an asset purchase agreement and management programming agreement by Vanderbilt Student Communications and Nashville Public Radio, owners of WPLN-FM. Under the purchase agreement, Vanderbilt Student Communications agreed, subject to approval by the Federal Communications Commission, to sell the 91.1 FM license to Nashville Public Radio for the purchase price of $3.35 million. Under the management programming agreement, Nashville Public Radio converted the main broadcast signal into a full-time classical music station, with new call letters of WFCL. On September 1, 2011, WRVU returned to over-the-air broadcasting and was heard on WPLN-FM's HD-3 signal. This continued until May 22, 2014, when WRVU became an internet-only station.
Vanderbilt's first radio station, and hence WRVU's progenitor, can be traced to the early 1950s, at which time it was called WVU. The station eventually became known as WRVU and started to broadcast beyond Vanderbilt campus in the early 1970s. Prior to that time, WRVU had been a carrier current station, broadcasting its signal through the university's steam tunnels to small transmitters in each dorm. The transmitter emitted its signal to be received at 580 kHz on the AM band.
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