WGEV | |
City: | Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania |
Area: | Geneva College |
Airdate: | 1965 |
Frequency: | 88.3 MHz |
Format: | Defunct |
Erp: | 15 watts |
Haat: | 81 meters |
Class: | D |
Coordinates: | 40.7725°N -80.3092°W |
Facility Id: | 23619 |
Owner: | Geneva College |
WGEV was a college radio station that was owned by Geneva College in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. The station began broadcasting on November 15, 1965 at 12:30 pm. The station used to broadcast on 88.3 FM, but its license was canceled in September 2007.[1] A class D station, WGEV applied for a power upgrade and move to class A status in 1989 but that move was rejected in July 1989 as it would have caused significant interference with the broadcast signal of WYSU in Youngstown, Ohio.[2]
In 1995, WGEV was a finalist in the "creative production" category of the Marconi College Radio Awards.[3] The station was honored for the program "Gospel Galaxy", a science fiction tale about the crew of a Christian starship whose mission is to spread the Gospel through music.
WGEV moved operations to internet radio, but ceased operations in December 2013.