- Source: WAIW (FM)
WAIW is a contemporary worship formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Winchester, Virginia. WAIW is owned and operated by Educational Media Foundation.
Coverage area
With the station's transmitter located atop a mountain, WAIW's signal can be heard throughout the Shenandoah Valley, Central and Northern Virginia, the Eastern Panhandle and Potomac Highlands of West Virginia, parts of Central and Western Maryland and Metro Washington, D.C.
History
Former owner Centennial Broadcasting filed an agreement with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on October 6, 2020, to sell the former WINC-FM to Educational Media Foundation (EMF) for $1.75 million. WINC-FM's existing music programming moved to the co-owned WXBN (105.5 FM) and WZFC (104.9 FM) ahead of the sale; Centennial also retained the rights to the WINC callsign and branding. On November 18, 2020, EMF filed to operate WINC-FM as a non-commercial station upon closing.
The sale closed on December 29, 2020. At 2:37 p.m. that same day, WINC-FM abruptly signed off and around an hour later, at 3:29 p.m., the station signed back on IDing with the callsign WLWX and airing EMF's Air1 network. Sister station WAIW in Wheaton, Illinois, and WLWX "traded" callsigns on January 11, 2021. The application to operate the station as non-commercial was approved one day later.
References
External links
Air1 Online
FCC History Cards for WAIW
Facility details for Facility ID 41810 (WAIW) in the FCC Licensing and Management System
WAIW in Nielsen Audio's FM station database