WFNR

Blacksburg, Virginia United States
Broadcast area	New River Valley
Frequency	710 kHz
Ownership
Owner	Monticello Media (WFNR AM, LLC)
Sister stations	WBRW, WVHK, WPSK, WRAD, WRAD-FM
History
First air date	1974 (1974)[1]
Last air date	January 31, 2019 (2019-01-31)
Former call signs	WQBX (1974–1984) WNRB (1984)[2]
Call sign meaning	First in the New River Valley
Technical information
Facility ID	67588
Class	D
Power	10,000 watts (days only)
Transmitter coordinates	37°8′1″N 80°21′18″W / 37.13361°N 80.35500°W / 37.13361; -80.35500

WFNR was a news/talk formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Blacksburg, Virginia, serving the New River Valley.^[3] WFNR was last owned and operated by Monticello Media after its 2018 purchase of Cumulus Media's Blacksburg–Christiansburg cluster.^[4][5]

WFNR went off the air on January 31, 2019, due to equipment failures at its transmitter site. The station had special temporary authority to remain silent until July 31.^[6]

WFNR never returned to the air, resulting in the forfeit of its license after the one-year deadline to do so imposed by the Telecommunications Act of 1996 passed. It was deleted from the FCC's database on February 11, 2022.

References

• "Call Sign History". Federal Communications Commission, audio division. Retrieved July 16, 2015.

External links

• Facility details for Facility ID 67588 (WFNR) in the FCC Licensing and Management System
• FCC History Cards for WFNR (covering 1966-1981 as WQBX)

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