WDLV

88.7 FM was founded by Bob and Felice Augsburg as WAYJ, a Contemporary Christian music (CCM)-formatted station. It was a way to expand messages about Christianity to a younger audience, following the success of their weekly program for youth on another local Christian station, WSOR.{{cite web |url=http://waym.wayfm.com/about-us/the_way-fm_story.php |title=About Us :: The WAY-FM Story :: 88.7 WAY-FM |website=waym.wayfm.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060430022428/http://waym.wayfm.com/about-us/the_way-fm_story.php |archive-date=2006-04-30}}

WAYJ was first station and former flagship of the WAY-FM Network, after establishing additional stations, the WAY-FM group would relocate its corporate offices to Colorado Springs, Colorado in 2001.

On February 14, 2012, Classical South Florida said it was in the process of acquiring WAYJ from WAY-FM for $4.35 million. Following the announcement of the sale, WAY-FM announced that the organization would acquire competing station WSRX 89.5. It is licensed to Naples and was owned by the Family Church of Marco Island. This move was designed to continue WAY-FM programming in its legacy Southwest Florida market.[http://classicalsouthflorida.publicradio.org/about/wayj.shtml Classical South Florida press release: "Classical South Florida to Acquire WAYJ 88.7FM", February 14, 2012.] In the interim, programming from WAYJ began simulcasting on WSRX on March 1, 2012.[http://www.praisefm.com/content.php?id=162 Praise FM: "Letter To Praise FM Listeners"]

Upon completion of the sale on June 7, 2012, WAYJ's call sign was changed to WNPS. The WAYJ call letters were transferred to 89.5 on June 18, 2012.

On July 17, 2015, WNPS was sold to Educational Media Foundation and switched to EMF's K-Love under new call letters, WDLV.[https://radioinsight.com/blog/headlines/93448/emf-poised-to-acquire-classical-south-florida/ Classical South Florida Flips to K-Love] In consequence, the CCM format, which is featured on K-Love, resumed at 88.7 FM after three years, but is now competing with the former occupant of 88.7, WAYJ.

Following this switch of formats, the prior K-Love affiliate in the Fort Myers area, 98.5 FM WLVO, became affiliated with Radio Nueva Vida, EMF's Spanish-language network. EMF's purchase of WDLV, along with co-owned WFLV, WMLV, W214BD, and W270AD, was consummated on November 2, 2015, at a price of $21.7 million.

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