WKYV

WKYV signed on November 27, 1992, as WSVV, and carried an urban AC format that was targeted towards its city of license, Petersburg."Sandra Vaughan's WSVV is up, running, but fine tuning continues", The Richmond Times-Dispatch, December 12, 1992. In August 1994, it would change call letters to WSOJ, but continued with the urban AC format."Stations plan specials for sweeps; WTVR looks at its crime coverage", The Richmond Times-Dispatch, April 30, 1994.

On February 10, 1998, WSOJ began simulcasting on newly acquired sister WVGO, which dropped its oldies format."WVGO gets new format; call letters to change soon", The Richmond Times-Dispatch, February 13, 1998. Radio One would buy the station in March 1999."Radio One will buy four more", The Richmond Times-Dispatch, March 16, 1999. In October 1999, the WVGO/WSOJ simulcast ended, and Radio One began simulcasting their then-country station, WJRV ("105.7 The River") on WSOJ with new calls WARV-FM. In March 2001, Radio One sold the station to Honolulu Broadcasting, who would then lease it to Cox Radio via a local marketing agreement, and would split the simulcast by flipping WARV to a current-heavy country format as "Cat Country" to complement long-time powerhouse WKHK."Radio One sells 2 FM stations here", The Richmond Times-Dispatch, November 17, 2000."New country station on air", The Richmond Times-Dispatch, March 24, 2001.

In December 2002, Honolulu would terminate the LMA with Cox and sell the station to MainQuad Broadcasting, owners of WBBT-FM, and flipped it to ESPN Radio on April 1, 2003, after months of stunting. On January 21, 2004, WARV dropped ESPN programming and flipped to a simulcast of WBBT, which would also adopt an oldies format on the same date."New format", The Richmond Times-Dispatch, January 20, 2004."Oldies is new format, WBBT Radio to play rock and soul from the 1960s and 1970s", The Richmond Times-Dispatch, January 21, 2004.

In December 2005, WBBT and WARV, along with sister stations WWLB and WLFV, were purchased by Philadelphia-based Main Line Broadcasting.{{Cite web|url=https://mediaservicesgroup.com/main-line-broadcasting-llc-acquires-wjzv-warv-wcul-and-wbbt-all-fm-stations-serving-richmond-va-from-mainquad-communications-and-richmond-broadcasting/|title = Main Line Broadcasting LLC Acquires WJZV, WARV, WCUL, and WBBT (All FM Stations Serving Richmond, VA) from MainQuad Communications and Richmond Broadcasting | Media Services Group}}

On July 1, 2014, Main Line Broadcasting sold its Richmond stations to L&L Broadcasting, with the combined entity taking the name Alpha Media.{{Cite web|url=https://radioinsight.com/headlines/87668/alpha-and-l-acquire-main-line-broadcasting/|title=Alpha and L&L to Merge; Acquire Main Line Broadcasting|date=17 April 2014 }}

On October 20, 2014, WARV switched from simulcasting WBBT to sister WWLB, which aired a country format as "The Wolf".{{Cite web|url=https://radioinsight.com/headlines/netgnomes/90125/alpha-bullish-on-country-in-richmond/|title = Alpha Reboots Entire Richmond Cluster| date=20 October 2014 }}

On December 5, 2016, EMF filed an application with the FCC to purchase both WARV-FM and WLFV for $2 million.[https://radioinsight.com/blog/headlines/109556/alpha-sells-richmond-pair-to-emf/ Alpha Sells Richmond Pair to EMF]

On March 22, 2017, following the consummation of EMF's purchase, the station began stunting, directing listeners to sister station WWLB (the classic country-formatted "Hank FM").[https://radioinsight.com/headlines/117066/alpha-shakes-richmond-cluster/ Alpha Shakes Up Richmond Cluster] Radioinsight - March 22, 2017 On March 23, 2017, EMF re-launched the station as "K-Love".{{Cite news|url=https://twitter.com/VARTV/status/845222967214788608|title=Robert Corbin VARTV on Twitter|work=Twitter|access-date=2017-03-25|language=en}}

On April 24, 2017, WARV-FM became WKYV as part of a call letter exchange with its sister station on 90.1 FM in Colonial Heights (the WARV-FM calls were a better match for that station's new identity as part of EMF's Air1 network).

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{{cite book|url=http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-YB/2010/D4-2010-BC-YB-7.pdf|title=Broadcasting Yearbook 2010|date=2010|access-date=July 6, 2015|publisher=ProQuest, LLC/Reed Publishing (Nederland), B.V.|page=D-562}}

{{cite web|url=http://www1.arbitron.com/sip/displaySip.do?surveyID=SP15&band=fm&callLetter=WARV|title=Arbitron Station Information Profiles|access-date=July 6, 2015|work=Nielsen Audio/Nielsen Holdings}}

{{cite web|url=http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/call_hist.pl?Facility_id=21826&Callsign=WKYV|title=Call Sign History|access-date=July 6, 2015|work=Federal Communications Commission, audio division}}

{{cite web|url=http://transition.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/fmq?call=WKYV|title=WKYV Facility Record|access-date=April 6, 2017|work=Federal Communications Commission, audio division}}

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