WKYV

WKYV signed on November 27, 1992, as WSVV, and carried an urban AC format that was targeted towards its city of license, Petersburg.^[6] In August 1994, it would change call letters to WSOJ, but continued with the urban AC format.^[7]

On February 10, 1998, WSOJ began simulcasting on newly acquired sister WVGO, which dropped its oldies format.^[8] Radio One would buy the station in March 1999.^[9] In October 1999, the WVGO/WSOJ simulcast ended, and Radio One began simulcasting their then-country station, WJRV ("105.7 The River") on WSOJ with new calls WARV-FM. In March 2001, Radio One sold the station to Honolulu Broadcasting, who would then lease it to Cox Radio via a local marketing agreement, and would split the simulcast by flipping WARV to a current-heavy country format as "Cat Country" to complement long-time powerhouse WKHK.^[10][11]

In December 2002, Honolulu would terminate the LMA with Cox and sell the station to MainQuad Broadcasting, owners of WBBT-FM, and flipped it to ESPN Radio on April 1, 2003, after months of stunting. On January 21, 2004, WARV dropped ESPN programming and flipped to a simulcast of WBBT, which would also adopt an oldies format on the same date.^[12][13]

In December 2005, WBBT and WARV, along with sister stations WWLB and WLFV, were purchased by Philadelphia-based Main Line Broadcasting.^[14]

On July 1, 2014, Main Line Broadcasting sold its Richmond stations to L&L Broadcasting, with the combined entity taking the name Alpha Media.^[15]

On October 20, 2014, WARV switched from simulcasting WBBT to sister WWLB, which aired a country format as "The Wolf".^[16]

On December 5, 2016, Educational Media Foundation (EMF) filed an application with the FCC to purchase both WARV-FM and WLFV for $2 million.^[17]

On March 22, 2017, following the consummation of EMF's purchase, the station began stunting, directing listeners to sister station WWLB (the classic country-formatted "Hank FM").^[18] On March 23, 2017, EMF re-launched the station as "K-Love".^[19]

On April 24, 2017, WARV-FM became WKYV as part of a call letter exchange with its sister station on 90.1 FM in Colonial Heights (the WARV-FM calls were a better match for that station's new identity as part of EMF's Air1 network).

• WKYV Online
• Facility details for Facility ID 21826 (WKYV) in the FCC Licensing and Management System
• WKYV in Nielsen Audio's FM station database