WXRV
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| City | Andover, Massachusetts |
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| Broadcast area | Greater Boston, Manchester and Portsmouth, New Hampshire |
| Branding | 92.5 The River |
| Slogan | Independent Radio |
| Frequency | 92.5 MHz |
| Translator(s) | W243DC 96.5 MHz Needham, Massachusetts |
| Repeater(s) | WXRV-FM1 (92.5, Framingham) WXRV-FM2 (92.5, Dover) WXRV-FM3 (92.5, Newton) WXRV-FM5 (92.5, Boston) |
| First air date | June 1959 |
| Format | Adult album alternative |
| ERP | 25,000 watts |
| HAAT | 217 meters (712 ft) |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 49385 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 42°46′23.00″N 71°6′11.00″W / 42.7730556°N 71.1030556°W |
| Callsign meaning | W X RiVer |
| Owner | Northeast Broadcasting (Beanpot License Corp.) |
| Sister stations | WFNX, WLKC, WXRG |
| Webcast |
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| Website | www |
WXRV (The River 92.5 FM) is an adult album alternative radio station based in Andover, Massachusetts, with a signal covering most of northeast Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire, and audible as far away as Plymouth, Massachusetts. Originating in 1947 as WHAV, an AM station in Haverhill, an FM station was founded in 1948, but went dark in the early 1950s. The FM station was restored on its current frequency in 1959; it became soft rock-formatted WLYT (Lite 92.5) in 1983, and gained its current identity as WXRV on August, 1, 1995, presumably taking the River moniker from the nearby Merrimack River (though with its wider reach, it uses Boston's Charles River for publicity purposes), but some say that the "river" moniker is for its diverse format of music that winds back and forth flowing like a river. Despite the station's transmitter location, WXRV attempts to primarily serve the Greater Boston area; its signal also reaches into the nearby Manchester and Portsmouth markets. To overcome signal issues near Boston, the station applied for four on-channel booster stations in the Boston and metro-west areas in August 2015. The studios are still located in Haverhill, in the original WHAV art deco building. The current station inherited a facility on the top floor of its studio now called the River Music Hall, which was designed for broadcasting live performances in the pre-rock era, and is used today to broadcast live performances and to record performances for later broadcast.
The station's slogan is "Independent Radio", proclaiming its status as being a single station separate from the large mass-media conglomerates such as Clear Channel Communications and CBS Radio with freedom from the idea of corporate playlists and national content. This enables WXRV to play a very wide variety of music, ranging from blues and folk to contemporary alternative and classic rock, as well as songs from numerous local musicians and lesser-known musical acts.
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