FM Technical Profile: WVAS

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Station Name:

-

Frequency:

90.7

Format:

Jazz, Talk, Classical

Transmitter Location:

[map] [bird's eye] [street view: view 1 | view 2 | view 3] On the campus of Alabama State University.  Just south of I-85 in central Montgomery, near the intersection Seay and Payne Streets.

Power (ERP):

80 kW

Antenna:

Omnidirectional

Antenna HAAT:

348 feet

Other Information:

60 dBu protected contour map, from the FCC.

(inactive fall 2020)

HD-2: Blues, R&B, Gospel
HD-3: Contemporary R&B, Blues, Jazz

"Bama State Radio"

:

PS-WVASJAZZ
Time-present
Text-WVAS
PTY-Jazz
PI-WVAS-FM

More Information:

[FCC]

[FCCdata]

[Radio-Locator]

[Wikipedia]

[Image] RDS display data as shown on a Mazda OEM stereo, from 2020.
[Image] Image of the station's RDS data displayed on an RDS radio in Florence, Alabama; shown are the Radio Text and PI (call sign) fields.

[Facebook] Bama State Radio Facebook page

Owner:

Alabama State University

History:

Signed on June 1984 with 25 kW from the existing tower site right in Montgomery. 

Began broadcasting in HD in 2012.  In August 2013 the HD-2 subchannel, playing a mix of music including R&B and jazz, was heard on W243CS, a translator at 96.5 MHz in Montgomery.  The subchannel is run by the students and goes by the name "Bama State Radio". It swapped places with the blues and gospel subchannel sometime in 2015, possibly around the time the Bama State Radio program left the translator, which went to a religious organization.  The HD was reported inactive in the fall of 2020.