WDVR | |
City: | Delaware Township, New Jersey |
Frequency: | 89.7 MHz |
Format: | Variety |
Erp: | 6 watts horizontal 3,800 watts vertical |
Haat: | 221 meters (725 ft) |
Class: | A |
Facility Id: | 52174 |
Coordinates: | 40.5103°N -74.9581°W |
Callsign Meaning: | W Delaware Valley Radio |
Owner: | Penn-Jersey Educational Radio Corp. |
Translator: | |
Website: | WDVRfm.org |
Licensing Authority: | FCC |
WDVR (89.7 FM) is a community radio station serving parts of western New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania, including New Hope and Trenton. The station, which broadcasts a variety radio format, is licensed to Delaware Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey. Its transmitter tower is on Pittsfield Road near Frenchtown-Flemington Road in Frenchtown, New Jersey.Radio-Locator.com/WDVR
WDVR is owned by Penn-Jersey Educational Radio Corporation.[1] It has its offices and studios on Rosemont-Ringoes Road in Sergeantsville, New Jersey.[2] WDVR is staffed by over fifty volunteers who have expertise in their genre of music or talk. Hosts are free to choose music and create their shows themselves within the boundaries of "family friendly" programming. WDVR is supported by donations from its audience and from local businesses which make underwriting contributions in exchange for being thanked on the air.
In addition, WDVR simulcasts on 90.5 WPNJ in Easton, Pennsylvania,Radio-Locator.com/WPNJ and on four FM translators: W245CC at 96.9 MHz in Trenton, New Jersey,[3] W240CY at 94.9 MHz in Mount Bethel, New Jersey,Radio-Locator.com/W240CY W222BV at 92.3 MHz in Harmony Township, New JerseyRadio-Locator.com/W222BV and W249BQ at 106.7 in Easton, Pennsylvania.Radio-Locator.com/W249BQ
The station website says, "WDVR is the only station in the North East which airs a two-hour, live Traditional Country Music show twice a month before a live audience."[4] The shows are broadcast from the Virginia Napurano Center which is in an old church in Sergeantsville.[5] The station was founded by Frank and Virginia (Ginny Lee) Napurano. It signed on the air on .[6]