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WGVU-FM is anNPR member station servingGrand Rapids, Michigan. Owned byGrand Valley State University, it is simulcast inWest Michigan. The main broadcast frequency is 88.5MHz, which is licensed toAllendale, the Grand Rapids suburb that is home to Grand Valley State's main campus. It is simulcast onWGVS-FM 95.3 MHz, which is licensed toWhitehall and servesMuskegon. The format istalk radio fromNPR, along withjazz.

WGVU-FM began broadcasting on July 17, 1983, as WGVC-FM, owned by what was then Grand Valley State College. The station had originally operated (1974–1982) as student-run WSRX, with an alternative rock format. It was the first locally-focused NPR station in Grand Rapids. It was West Michigan's fourth full NPR member, joining WVGR, a repeater of WUOM-FM inAnn Arbor (now known asMichigan Public),WMUK inKalamazoo, andWBLV in Muskegon. As a legacy of its time as acampus radio station, WGVU-FM operates at 4,000 watts from its transmitter nearCoopersville. This is fairly modest for a full NPR member on the FM band; most of Grand Rapids and its inner-ring suburbs only get a marginal signal. To make up for this shortfall, Grand Valley operates a translator in Grand Rapids proper, W237CZ at 95.3 FM.

WGVS-FM in Whitehall began asTop 40 station WLRQ ("Super Q") in the late 1970s. In the mid-1980s, the station bore the WRNF ("We're Rock Ninety Five") calls while continuing with a Top 40 format. By the mid-1990s, 95.3 FM had the WKBZ-FM calls and was airing anurban contemporary format as "Power 95.3". Station owners Robert Jewell and Daniel Thill donated WKBZ-FM, along withWKBZ (850 AM), to Grand Valley in 1995, but the following year the stations were sold to WLC Broadcasting, and it was not until November 1998 that WLC returned the stations to Grand Valley and the university began using them as simulcasts of WGVU-AM/FM. WGVS's transmitter is south of Whitehall.

WGVU-FM 88.5 formerly broadcast inHD Radio and operated two side channels.WGVU-FM HD2 was a simulcast of "RealOldies"1480 WGVU and 850 WGVS,^{[needs update]} and WGVU-FM HD3 was all jazz. Additionally the station's audio simulcasts on the digital subchannels ofWGVU/WGVK-TV on channel 35.4/52.4 via thesecondary audio program of that station (WGVU/WGVS is on the main audio channel), which features scrolling television schedules along with visual song/artist information for the radio audio.

WGVU-FM was the 2011 Michigan Association of Broadcasters Public Radio Station of the year among stations with a $2 million plus budget. This ended the winning streak ofMichigan Public, with which WGVU-FM competes.

• WGVU-FM History, Michiguide.com
• WGVS-FM History, Michiguide.com

• Facility details for Facility ID 4174 (WGVU) in theFCC Licensing and Management System
• WGVU inNielsen Audio's FM station database
• Facility details for Facility ID 33696 (WGVS) in theFCC Licensing and Management System
• WGVS inNielsen Audio's FM station database

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