WVAS

{{short description|Jazz music radio station in Montgomery, Alabama}}

{{Use American English|date=February 2025}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}}

{{Infobox radio station

| name = WVAS

| logo = WVAS-FM logo2.png

| logo_size = 230px

| city = Montgomery, Alabama

| area = Montgomery, Alabama

| branding =

| frequency = 90.7 MHz {{HD Radio}}

| translator =

| airdate = June 15, 1984

| format = Jazz

| subchannels = HD2: Bama State Radio (Urban Contemporary)
HD3: ASU Radio (Old School R&B/Gospel)

| erp = 80,000 watts

| haat = {{Convert|106|m|ft|sp=us}}

| class = C1

| facility_id = 727

| coordinates =

| callsign_meaning = W Voice of Alabama State{{cite web |title=Call Letter Origins |url=http://nelson.oldradio.com/origins.call-list.html |publisher=The Broadcast Archive |last=Nelson |first=Bob |date=2008-10-18 |access-date=2008-10-31}}

| former_callsigns =

| affiliations = National Public Radio
Public Radio Exchange

| owner = Alabama State University

| licensee =

| sister_stations =

| webcast = [http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wvas/ppr/wvas.m3u Listen Live]
[http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wvas/ppr/wvas2.m3u Listen Live (HD2)]
[http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wvas/ppr/wvas3.m3u Listen Live (HD3)]

| website = [http://www.wvasfm.org/ wvasfm.org]

| licensing_authority= FCC

}}

WVAS (90.7 FM) is a jazz-music formatted radio station in the Montgomery, Alabama, market licensed to the Alabama State University. WVAS is a member-supported non-commercial, educational station featuring news and other programming from National Public Radio and Public Radio Exchange. National programming produced by WVAS includes Café Jazz, distributed nationally by the African-American Public Radio Consortium.[http://aaprc.org/?page_id=7 AAPRC - Programs]

WVAS began broadcasting on June 15, 1984, from the fifth floor of the Levi Watkins Learning Center. Two years later, the station moved to its current location at Thomas Kilby Hall. Broadcasting from its transmitter on campus, WVAS has a signal that spans 18 counties, reaching a total population of more than 651,000.

In September 2007, WVAS received a grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to assist in its conversion from analog to digital broadcasting.{{cite press release |publisher=Corporation for Public Broadcasting |title=CPB Awards Grants to 89 Public Radio Stations for Digital Transition |url=http://www.cpb.org/pressroom/release.php?prn=617 |date=September 20, 2007}} WVAS was one of just two radio stations in Alabama to receive such a grant.