KWVA

KWVA

City	Eugene, Oregon
Broadcast area	Eugene-Springfield area
Branding	U of O Campus Radio 88.1
Slogan	"Just Left of Jesus, Eighty-Eight Point Wonderful"
Frequency	88.1 MHz
First air date	May 27, 1993
Format	Freeform
ERP	1000 watts
HAAT	54 meters
Class	A
Facility ID	3025
Callsign meaning	Willamette Valley Alternative
Former callsigns	KRMA
Owner	University of Oregon
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	KWVA Online

KWVA (88.1 FM) is a college radio station broadcasting from the EMU building on the University of Oregon campus in Eugene, Oregon, United States. Licensed to the Associated Students of the University of Oregon, it serves the Eugene/Springfield metropolitan area and has a live online stream. KWVA primarily plays a varied mix of music, in addition talk shows and live college sports broadcasts.

KWVA regularly broadcasts a variety of locally produced and syndicated news programs including Democracy Now!, broadcast every weekday morning from 7:00–8:00 am, Health Matters broadcast Mondays 7:00pm-7:30pm, Anarchy Hour broadcast Tuesdays 7:00pm-7:30pm, and Occupy Radio broadcast Wednesdays 7:00pm-7:30pm.

KWVA regularly broadcasts University of Oregon athletics played in Eugene, including football, softball, volleyball and women's soccer. KWVA Sports also calls local high school football and basketball games.

KWVA is wholly student-operated and owned, though community members not affiliated with the University of Oregon can volunteer to be on-air DJs.

Since Winter 2009, KWVA has kept up-to-date playlists of every show aired in the online database Spinitron.

History

KWVA began broadcasting in 1993. But the start of student radio at the University of Oregon began long before. Students and faculty worked together in the operation of KWAX, which was operated out of the UO Department of Speech. It served as an academic laboratory providing daily services for the campus and community from studios in Villard Hall. In the 1970s, KWAX affiliated with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, hired a dedicated professional staff and affiliated with NPR. Two years later, the university cut its academic ties with the station and by the early 1980s there were no students involved at KWAX. KWAX moved off campus and turned into the classical music station that it continues to be today.

In the late 1980s, a group of students decided to start a new student radio station. Gary Rosenstein and James January spent months collecting the necessary 1,800 signatures to get the student government to bring the student station up for a vote. During this time KWAX was applying for a construction permit for a new facility broadcasting at 88.1FM on an existing antenna at Blanton Heights in South Eugene. Mr. January struck a deal with KWAX. KWAX would operate children's programming from 9 am – 2 pm and UO students would broadcast for the remainder of the day.

The new student station was to be called KRMA, for Real Music Alternative. Studio equipment was donated, thus reducing the start-up costs and allowing on other costs such as construction, production equipment and a microwave link to the Blanton Heights tower. Estimated cost was to be $25,000.

On April 27, 1990, following a student body vote, the ASUO senate granted funding for a new mixed format student radio station, a total of $25,861 to cover the costs of construction and first year of operation. The measure was passed by more than four to one and students anticipated tuning into the station when they returned to campus the next fall. Due to FCC objections, namely interference due to antenna position, KWAX reconsidered its second service thus allowing KRMA to move ahead with university approval. An amended application was submitted in April 1992 proposing a name change to KWVA and a relocation of the antenna to the roof of Prince Lucien Campbell Hall, the highest building on the University of Oregon campus.

On May 27, 1993 at 1:32 pm, KWVA broadcast its first song, "Hey Mr. DJ" by They Might Be Giants. It took nearly three years for January and Rosenstein to see fruitful efforts, and by that time they had both graduated. In June 1992, Michael Lovelady replaced January as the station manager and Alyssa Jenson took over for Lovelady in 1993.

In 2006, KWVA hired its first full-time station manager Charlotte Nisser. Nisser was a student volunteer at KWVA while in undergraduate studies at the UO and accepted the full-time position while in grad school.

In February 2008, KWVA received FCC approval for a construction permit to relocate the KWVA transmitter from the top of Prince Lucien Campbell Hall to Goodpasture Island Road and increase signal strength from 500 watts to 1,000 watts. KWVA requested funding from the ASUO to pay for the one-time installation and equipment expense to make this upgrade and relocation. Funding was approved and installation was successful, upgrading KWVA with modern broadcasting capabilities and vastly increasing its potential listenership to include all of Eugene/Springfield and surrounding areas.

Awards and Recognition

In 2010, DJ Reverend Marc Time's "The Sunday Morning Hangover" was recognized by the Eugene Weekly as having the best radio program in Eugene. In 2011, he again placed in the top three.

In 2011, Music Director Thor Slaughter won two CMJ radio awards, Best Newcomer (in recognition of his first six months as music director) and Least Likely to Sell Out.

In 2014, KWVA won 2 awards and was a finalist for 3 others from the College Broadcasters, Inc. These finalist entries were: Best Regularly Scheduled Program – Radio, KWVA-FM, University of Oregon: This Oregon Life: Trapped Best Sports Reporting – Radio, KWVA-FM, University of Oregon: Oregon Takes the Decade, Defeats Washington 45-24 Best Sports Play-by-Play – Radio, KWVA-FM, University of Oregon: Oregon vs. Washington Softball Best Podcast – Radio, KWVA-FM, University of Oregon: Nick Aliotti: The Best Interview Around Best News Reporting – Television, KWVA-FM, University of Oregon : UO Students Say Sayonara to EMU. KWVA was the winner of Best Regular Scheduled Program and Best Sports Play-by-Play.

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Radio stations in the Eugene–Springfield, Oregon market

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Nearby radio markets Bend Medford–Ashland Portland See also List of radio stations in Oregon

Oregon college radio stations

KBVR (Oregon State University) KEOL (Eastern Oregon University) KPSU (Portland State University) KSLC (Linfield College) KTEC (Oregon Institute of Technology) KWAX (University of Oregon) KWVA (University of Oregon)

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

Coordinates: 44°04′55″N 123°06′34″W / 44.081944°N 123.109444°W / 44.081944; -123.109444

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