WKVB (FM)

For the station that used the WKVB call sign from 2005 to 2020, see WKPA (FM). Not to be confused with WKLB-FM, WKLB (AM), or WKBV.

WKVB
Broadcast area
Frequency107.3 MHz (HD Radio)
BrandingK-Love
Programming
FormatContemporary Christian
Subchannels
  • HD2: Air1
  • HD3: K-Love 2000s
NetworkK-Love
Ownership
OwnerEducational Media Foundation
History
First air date
June 15, 1961
(63 years ago) (1961-06-15)[1]
Former call signs
  • WAAB-FM (1961–1968)
  • WAAF (1968–2020)
  • WBZU (2020)
Call sign meaning
"K-Love Boston"
Technical information[2]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID74467
ClassB1
ERP2,100 watts
HAAT321 meters (1,053 ft)
Transmitter coordinates
42°23′2.7″N 71°29′35.3″W / 42.384083°N 71.493139°W / 42.384083; -71.493139
Links
Public license information
WebcastListen live
Websiteklove.com

WKVB (107.3 FM) is a non-commercial radio station licensed to serve Westborough, Massachusetts, United States, carrying a contemporary Christian format known as "K-Love". Owned by the Educational Media Foundation (EMF), WKVB does not broadcast any local programming but functions as the network affiliate for K-Love in Greater Boston and Worcester. With its transmitter located in Hudson, 20 miles west of Boston, its signal is supplemented by WNKC (104.9 FM) in Gloucester, which serves the North Shore and Merrimack Valley, and WLVO (95.5 FM) from Providence, Rhode Island, which covers Southeastern Massachusetts. The station also has boosters in Boston, Lexington, and Waltham. In addition to a standard analog transmission, WKVB broadcasts in HD Radio and is available online.

Historically, this station is perhaps best known as WAAF, which carried a commercial rock music format for nearly 50 years in various forms of the genre, with an active rock orientation between 1989 and 2020. The station also featured personalities including Bob Rivers, Liz Wilde and Greg Hill, and was the first high-profile radio home for Opie and Anthony in the mid-1990s. The station was sold by Entercom (now known as Audacy, Inc.) to the Educational Media Foundation on February 18, 2020. WAAF's former programming continues on a digital subchannel of WWBX, as well as on the Audacy platform.[3]

  1. ^ "WAAB-FM" (PDF). Broadcasting Yearbook. 1963. p. B-89 (291). Archived (PDF) from the original on March 13, 2021. Retrieved February 19, 2020.
  2. ^ "Facility Technical Data for WKVB". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  3. ^ Venta, Lance (February 18, 2020). "Entercom Sells WAAF Boston To Educational Media Foundation". RadioInsight. Archived from the original on February 18, 2020. Retrieved February 19, 2020.