WLVE

This article is about the current-day Milwaukee radio station. For Miami radio station that held these calls from 1976-2008, see WMIA-FM.

WLVE
City	Mukwonago, Wisconsin
Broadcast area	Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Branding	K-Love
Slogan	Positive and Encouraging
Frequency	105.3 FM MHz
First air date	November 22, 2001 (2001-11-22)
Format	Contemporary Christian music (CCM)
ERP	1,650 watts
HAAT	193 meters
Class	A
Facility ID	88081
Callsign meaning	W K-LoVE
Former callsigns	WFZH (2001-2008) WKMZ (2008-2011)
Affiliations	K-Love
Owner	EMF Broadcasting (Educational Media Foundation)
Website	klove.com

WLVE (105.3 FM) is a radio station in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin area. The station is owned by EMF Broadcasting and began airing the K-Love contemporary Christian (CCM) format on February 15, 2008. WLVE's Milwaukee offices and studios are located near the Wisconsin State Fair Park.

History

WFZH went on the air November 22, 2001 with a temporary all-Christmas music format. This format continued until just after Christmas, when they changed to a contemporary Christian format, 105.3, The Fish. Danny Clayton was hired as the first (and only) program director for the radio station, having previously spent his Milwaukee radio career at AC-formatted WKTI. Other original staff members included Milwaukee radio veteran Andi Miller (now traffic reporter for WTMJ). Other personalities joined including Jon Hemmer (currently WMBI, Chicago) and Rick Hall, host at SOS Radio Networks.

WFZH was owned by Salem Communications, the largest Christian and family-themed broadcaster in the United States. The station shared studio space and staff with its sister station, talk-formatted WRRD-AM.

For a time, WFZH had a friendly rivalry with its Chicago sister station, WZFS ("106.7 The Fish"), which included a paintball game between the stations' employees. This rivalry lasted until the Chicago station was sold to Univision Communications in 2005 and WZFS became Spanish AC station WPPN.

In February 2008, Salem sold both stations in separate deals. WRRD was purchased by Good Karma Broadcasting, which moved their ESPN Radio all-sports format from 1510 to 540 as WAUK, with the WRRD calls warehoused on 1510, which has ESPN Deportes Radio. WFZH would remain with the CCM format, but its sale to EMF Broadcasting led to a change from local programming to EMF's K-Love national network. This change took effect after Midnight on February 15, 2008, following 2 days of on-air farewells from the "Fish" staff. On May 30, the call letters changed to WKMZ.

On April 29, 2011 WKMZ changed their call letters to WLVE to go with the "K-Love" branding. The calls, which had been warehoused at the current day WXVA in Winchester, Virginia and had been used for their longest period on the current WMIA-FM in Miami, Florida from 1984 until 2009, were likely given to EMF by former holders Clear Channel Communications as part of one of the many transactions EMF has executed to Clear Channel in return for selling former K-LOVE translator stations to them to relay Clear Channel HD Radio subchannels on analog FM radio in small coverage areas.

References

Kirchen, Rich (2008-01-28), Salem selling radio station 'The Fish', retrieved 2008-02-12

External links

Query the FCC's FM station database for WLVE

Radio-Locator information on WLVE

Radio stations in the Milwaukee–Racine, Wisconsin market

by AM frequency	540 620 860 920 940 1050 1130 1250 1290 1340 1400 1460 1470 1500 1510 1540 1560 1610 1640

by FM frequency	88.1 88.9 89.7 90.7 91.1 91.7 92.1 92.5 93.3 94.5 95.1 95.7 96.1 96.5 96.9 97.3 97.9 98.3 99.1 100.1 100.3 100.7 102.1 102.5 102.9 103.7 104.5 104.7 104.9 105.3 105.7 106.1 106.9 107.7

NOAA Weather Radio frequency	162.400 162.450 162.525

Digital radio	620 1130 1250 88.9-1 88.9-2 90.7-1 90.7-2 93.3-1 94.5-1 94.5-2 95.7-1 95.7-2 96.5-1 97.3-1 97.3-2 98.3-1 98.3-2 99.1-1 99.1-2 100.7-1 100.7-2 102.1-1 102.9-1 103.7-1 103.7-2 106.1-1 106.1-2 106.9-1

by callsign	KEC60 KZZ76 WWG91 WAUK WBKV WCCX WDDW WFAW WGTD WGLB WHAD WHQG WIIL WISN WJMR-FM WJTI & W250BN WJYI WKKV-FM WKLH WKTI WLDB WLIP WLKG WLUM-FM WLVE WMBZ WMIL-FM WMSE WMWK WMYX-FM WNOV WNRG-FM WOKY WSJP WSJP-FM WPJX WPTJ444 & WPZK577 (WISDOT Traffic) WRIT-FM WRJN WRNW WRRD WSJP-FM/W273AT WSSP WTKM WTKM-FM WTMJ WUWM WVCY-FM WVTY WWDV WXSS WYMS WZTI

Defunct	WAWA WFMR

Nearby radio markets Fox Cities Madison Sheboygan–Manitowoc Janesville–Beloit–Jefferson County Chicago See also List of radio stations in Wisconsin

K-Love member stations

KAKL KAKV KBKF-LP KBLV KBMK KBMV-FM KDKL KEKL KELU KFLV KGCB KGKV KGLF KGLV KHKL KHLV KIKL KILV KJKL KJLV KKLB KKLC KKLG KKLJ KKLM KKLP KKLQ KKLT KKLU KKLV KKLW KKLY KKVO KLAG KLBF KLBV KLBZ KLCF KLCQ KLCX KLDV KLFG KLFH KLFS KLFV KLHK KLHV KLJK KLJN KLJV KLKA KLKF KLKI KLKM KLKV KLLR KLLU KLMD KLMK KLMQ KLNB KLNQ KLOF KLON KLOV KLOY KLRH KLRI KLRJ KLRM KLRO KLRQ KLRS KLRV KLRW KLRX KLRY KLSB KLSF KLSK KLSW KLTU KLUU KLUW KLUY KLVA KLVB KLVC KLVG KLVH KLVJ KLVK KLVM KLVN KLVP KLVR KLVS KLVU KLVW KLVY KLWA KLWC KLWO KLWV KLXA KLXC KLXD KLXV KLZV KMFC KMKL KMKV KMLR KMLT KMLV KMRL KNDL KNDW KNKL KNOL KOBC KPOR KQKL KQLR KQLV KRKL KRKM KRLE KRLH KRLP KRLR KRLU KSFS KTKL KTLI KULV KVKL KVLB KVLK KVLP KVLR KVLT KVLW KWBI KWKL KWLR KWLU KXLV KYKL KYKV KYLK KYLR KYLV KZKL KZLO KZLU KZLV KZVV WAKL WBKL WCCC-FM WCRR WDKL WDKV WDLV WEBF WEKV WFLV WFVL WGCK-FM WGKV WHKU WHKV WHVK WIKL WIKV WILV WJKL WJKV WJLR WJLV WKCD WKDL-FM WKEL WKFF WKGF WKGV WKHL WKHW WKIF WKIV WKIW WKJL WKLN WKLU WKLV-FM WKMV WKMY WKRT WKVB WKVC WKVF WKVH WKVJ WKVK WKVN WKVO WKVP WKVU WKVV WKVW WKVY WKVZ WKWV WKYF WKYJ WKYP WKYV WLBW WLKA WLKB WLKE WLKH WLKJ WLKP WLKU WLKV WLRJ WLRK WLSF WLTK WLVE WLVG WLVM WLVU WLVV WLVW WLVX WLVZ WLXB WLXK WMHK WMLG WMLV WMRK-FM WMSJ WMXK WNGA WNKL WNKV WNLT WNWT WNWW WOKL WPFF WPKV WPLV WPTC WQJB WQKV WRCM WSHN WTCF WTKL WTLG WUKV WULV WVKV WVLO WVRB WWLT WWLV WWWD WXKV WXKY-FM WYKL WYKV WYLR WYLV WYND-FM WZCH WZKL WZKV WZLV

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Coordinates: 42°58′05″N 88°11′20″W / 42.968°N 88.189°W / 42.968; -88.189

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