Broadcast area | Huntington, West Virginia Ashland, Kentucky Ironton, Ohio |
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Frequency | 930 kHz |
Branding | ESPN Huntington 94.1 FM and AM 930 |
Programming | |
Format | Sports |
Affiliations | ESPN Radio Marshall Thundering Herd football[1] Pittsburgh Pirates Radio Network[2] Cincinnati Bengals Radio Network[3] |
Ownership | |
Owner | Kindred Communications |
WCMI, WCMI-FM, WDGG, WMGA, WXBW | |
History | |
First air date | 1923 (as WSAZ) |
Former call signs | WSAZ (1923–1970) WGNT (1970–1988) WTKZ (1991–1994) |
Call sign meaning | W RiVer Cities |
Technical information[4] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
Facility ID | 21435 |
Class | B |
Power | 5,000 watts day 1,000 watts night |
Transmitter coordinates | 38°24′03″N 82°29′42″W / 38.40083°N 82.49500°W |
Translator(s) | 94.1 W231BS (Huntington) |
Links | |
Public license information | |
Webcast | Listen Live |
Website | wrvc |
WRVC (930 kHz) is an ESPN Radio–affiliated sports–formatted station licensed to Huntington, West Virginia, United States, and serving the greater Huntington–Ashland metropolitan area. The station is owned by Huntington–based Kindred Communications as part of a conglomerate with Ashland, Kentucky–licensed ESPN Radio–affiliated sports station WCMI (1340 AM), Catlettsburg, Kentucky–licensed active rock station WCMI-FM (92.7 FM), Ashland–licensed country music station WDGG (93.7 FM), Kenova, West Virginia–licensed adult contemporary station WMGA (97.9 FM), and Gallipolis, Ohio–licensed classic country station WXBW (101.5 FM). All six stations share studios on Fifth Avenue in downtown Huntington, while its transmitter facilities off of Park Avenue near I-64 in southwestern Huntington.
In addition to its primary AM signal, WRVC also operates an FM translator on 94.1 FM as W231BS. Its transmitter is located at the Kindred studios in downtown Huntington.