WXRK-LP is an active rock and alternative rock formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Charlottesville, Virginia , serving Charlottesville and Albemarle County in Virginia . WXRK-LP is owned and operated by Blue Ridge Free Media.
7-517: WXRK may refer to: Current [ edit ] WXRK-LP , a radio station (92.3 FM) licensed to Charlottesville, Virginia, United States Past [ edit ] WINS-FM , a radio station (92.3 FM) licensed to New York, New York, United States, which carried the WXRK callsign from 1985 to 2006 and 2007 to 2012 WKRK-FM , a radio station (92.3 FM) licensed to Cleveland, Ohio, United States, which carried
14-400: A building" all of "the stations all operate separately, having only limited and largely incidental contact with each other". Lenert turned in the license for WPVC-LP on June 16, 2020, "As a result of the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic and recent increased costs of station ownership and operation, it has become impossible to operate station WPVC-LP in the manner that I wish." Lenert largely blamed
21-462: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages WXRK-LP WXRK-LP signed on the air on September 7, 2015. The call sign for the station was previously held by WXRK-FM in New York City. From its outset, the station has aired a combination of active rock and alternative rock. In September 2019, Saga Communications, which operates
28-609: The "legal action by Saga Communications combined with a loss of sponsors during the pandemic" for the signing off of that station. As of October 2024, the FCC has not acted on the Petition from Saga and WXRK-LP continues to broadcast. A similar petition from Saga seeking regarding the license of WREN-LP , housed in the same building, was largely denied in September 2024 but resulted in a short-term license renewal for that station and
35-834: The Charlottesville Radio Group under the Tidewater Communications licensee, filed a petition with the FCC requesting that WXRK-LP's license not be renewed. Saga claimed the station, along with other Charlottesville-based low-power FMs, were operating as "a de facto cluster". The station's founder Mike Friend called the petition to deny "'legal junk' and a deliberate 'misinterpretation' of FCC rules". Friend pointed to other attempts by Saga to shutter low-power FM stations within Saga markets. Saga, in 2004, claimed that KFLO-LP in Jonesboro, Arkansas,
42-534: The WXRK callsign from 2006 to 2007 [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about radio and/or television stations with the same/similar call signs or branding. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=WXRK&oldid=1185159606 " Category : Broadcast call sign disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
49-482: Was airing announcements that "sound suspiciously like commercials". Saga also petitioned the FCC to revoke the license of WLCQ-LP , a Christian station in the Springfield, Massachusetts, market, "for equipment violations" in 2015. In both cases, the FCC "admonished the station" but denied Saga's complaints. Jeff Lenert, co-founder of then-progressive talk station WPVC-LP , said that "though [the stations] share
#897102