WBVR-FM

Not to be confused with WVVR.

WBVR-FM
City	Auburn, Kentucky
Broadcast area	Bowling Green area
Branding	Beaver 96.7
Slogan	Number One Country (stylized as #1 Country)
Frequency	96.7 MHz
First air date	March 28, 1965 (1965-03-28)
Format	Country
Audience share	13.3 (Fall 2009, R&R^[1])
ERP	45,000 watts = 45 kW
HAAT	129 metres (423 ft)
Class	C2
Facility ID	71244
Transmitter coordinates	36°50′35.00″N 86°15′30.00″W / 36.8430556°N 86.2583333°W / 36.8430556; -86.2583333
Callsign meaning	BeaVeR ^[2]
Former callsigns	WRUS-FM (1965-1976) WAKQ (1976-1984)
Former frequencies	92.1 MHz (1965-1976) 101.1 MHz (1976-1994)
Owner	Forever Communications, Inc.
Sister stations	WBGN, WLYE-FM, WUHU
Website	www.beaverfm.com

WBVR-FM (96.7 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a Country music format. The station, which is licensed to Auburn, Kentucky, USA, and serving the Bowling Green area, is owned by Forever Communications, Inc.^[3]

The station's transmitter is located in northwestern Allen County just east of Alvaton.

History

The station began broadcasting on March 28, 1962 at 92.1 megacycles as WRUS-FM. It was a part-time repeater of WRUS-AM until 1976, simulcasting news programming, but plays a different format of music.

The station moved to the 101.1 FM frequency upon the callsign change to WAKQ around 1976. Along with the frequency and callsign changes, the station began broadcasting a Top 40/CHR format. It became known on air as K.Q. 101. The station's current callsign of WBVR-FM was adopted in 1984.^[4] The station continued with the Top 40/CHR format until at least 1987, when the station began branding itself as Beaver 101 FM, and switching to their current country music format.^[5]

On September 1, 1994, the station moved to its current 96.7 FM frequency after the permanent sign-off of the previous 96.7 occupant, WMJM (the former WLBJ-FM) in Bowling Green.^[6] Upon the frequency change, the station changed its branding to 96.7 The Beaver. Other nicknames the station had include "Big Money Beaver" (usually uttered by winners of the station's contests) and "Gen-U-Wine Country."

Prior to WBVR's move down the dial, the license for the 101.1 FM frequency in Russellville was sold to Nashville, Tennessee-based Clear Channel Communications (now part of iHeartMedia). That is also when that company began to use that frequency to sign on WJZC-FM (now WUBT), which is still licensed to Russellville, but the station is based in downtown Nashville along with Clear Channel's other Nashville-area stations (e.g. WLAC, WNRQ, WRVW, and WSIX-FM). In that same year, though a few months earlier, WVVR in Clarksville, Tennessee (licensed to Hopkinsville, Kentucky) ceased their oldies format and became a similarly branded and formatted station serving the Clarksville, Tennessee radio market.

At some time in the early 2000s, WBVR-FM's broadcasting license was moved to Auburn, Kentucky, but the studios remained in Bowling Green, sharing office space with WUHU and WBGN. In 2009, WBVR's branding was re-arranged and is now known as Beaver 96.7. As a country station, WBVR's main competitor is WGGC, but the station secondarily competes with two other country stations within the Bowling Green market, as well as the four country stations that are based in Nashville that can be easily heard from southern Kentucky.

On-air personalities

Current

Preston Green
Shannon Presley
Alan Austin

Former

Scooter Davis, weekday mornings (199?-2014), deceased 2016 ^[7]

During the KQ-101 days, the main on air celebrity was Big Daddy Bobaloo.

References

↑ "Bowling Green Market Ratings". Radio & Records.
↑ "Call Letter Origins". Radio History on the Web.
↑ "WBVR-FM Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
↑ 1985 Broadcasting Yearbook, page B-112
↑ 1987 Broadcasting Yearbook, page 120
↑ "WBVR Callsign History". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
↑ WBKO News Staff (June 24, 2016). "Scooter Davis Passes Away". WBKO. Retrieved June 25, 2016.

External links

Query the FCC's FM station database for WBVR

Radio-Locator information on WBVR

Radio stations in the Bowling Green, Kentucky market

By AM frequency	610 650 930 1230 1250 1340 1450 1490 1510 1570

By FM frequency	88.1 88.5 88.9 90.7 91.7 92.5 92.9 93.3 94.1 95.1 95.5 95.7 95.9 96.3 96.7 97.5 97.9 98.3 99.3 100.7 101.1 101.5 101.9 102.3 102.5 102.7 103.7 104.5 105.3 105.9 106.3 107.1 107.5

NOAA Weather Radio frequencies	162.4 162.5

By callsign	KIH45 WNG570 W203BI W239BT W240CP W248CF W252CV W268CE W274BQ WAYD WBGN WBKR WBVR WCDS WCJK WCLU WCLU-FM WCVK WDNS WGFX WGGC WHHT WJXA WKCT WKLX WKYU WLAC WLBQ WLCK WLYE WNRQ WOVO WPRT WPTQ WQXQ WRUS WRVW WSIX WSM WSM-FM WUBT WUHU WVLE WWHR WWKU

Defunct	WBLG-LP (107.9 FM) WMJM (96.7 FM) WLBJ (1410 AM) WSMJ (800 AM)

Nearby radio markets Clarksville–Hopkinsville Cookeville Evansville Lexington–Fayette Louisville Nashville Owensboro See also List of radio stations in Kentucky

Country radio stations in the state of Kentucky

Stations	WAIN-FM – Columbia WAMZ – Louisville WANY – Albany WANY-FM – Albany WBIO – Philpot WBKR – Owensboro WBRT – Bardstown WBUL – Lexington WBVR – Auburn WCBL – Benton WCCK – Calvert City WCPM – Cumberland WCYN-FM – Cynthiana WCYO – Irvine WDGG – Ashland WDHR – Pikeville WEKG – Jackson WEZJ-FM – Williamsburg WFKN – Franklin WFKY – Frankfort WFLE – Flemingsburg WFLE-FM – Flemingsburg WFMW – Madisonville WFTG – London WGGC – Bowling Green WGKY – Wickliffe WGOH – Grayson WGRK-FM – Greensburg WHBN – Harrodsburg WHHT - Cave City WHSX – Edmonton WIKI – Carrollton WJKY – Jamestown WJRS – Jamestown WKCA – Salt Lick WKDO – Liberty WKDO-FM – Liberty WKDP-FM – Corbin WKDQ – Henderson WKDZ – Cadiz WKKS – Vanceburg WKLB – Manchester WKMO – Lebanon Junction WKVN – Morganfield WKWY – Tompkinsville WKYA – Greenville WKYQ – Paducah WKYR – Burkesville WLKS-FM – West Liberty WLLE – Mayfield WLOC – Munfordville WLSI – Pikeville WLSK – Lebanon WLVK – Fort Knox WLXO – Stamping Ground WLXX – Lexington WLYE – Glasgow WMDJ – Allen WMJL – Marion WMKZ – Monticello WMMG – Brandenburg WMMG-FM – Brandenburg WMSK-FM – Sturgis WNES – Central City WNKR – Williamstown WQNU – Lyndon WRKA – Louisville WRLV-FM – Salyersville WRUS – Russellville WRVK – Mount Vernon WSEK – Burnside WSEK-FM - Burnside WSGS – Hazard WSIP – Paintsville WSKV – Stanton WTKY – Tompkinsville WTKY-FM – Tompkinsville WUCO – Morganfield WULF – Hardinsburg WVKY – Shelbyville WVLC – Mannsville WVLE – Scottsville WVVR – Hopkinsville WWAG – Mckee WWEL – London WWKY – Providence WXAM – Buffalo WXBC – Hardinsburg WYGY – Fort Thomas WXMZ – Hartford WZAQ – Louisa

Defunct:	WFUL – Fulton

See also adult contemporary classic hits college country news/talk NPR oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in Kentucky

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