Richmond Pubcaster's Takeover Of Two Alpha Media Stations Starts Today With WCVE Simulcast

Stage One

COMMONWEALTH PUBLIC BROADCASTING CORP., the public broadcaster in central VIRGINIA, has announced that stage one of its takeover of two ALPHA MEDIA stations -- 80s WBBT/POWHATAN-RICHMOND, VA and Classic Country WWLB (93.1 HANK FM)/ETTRICK-PETERSBURG-RICHMOND, VA -- will start today (2/15) with the two new acquisitions temporarily simulcasting its NPR affiliate WCVE-F/RICHMOND. 

The previously-announced format changes that will move music programming off WCVE-F leaving it all-News-Talk and put Classical and Jazz programming on WBBT and WWLB, which will simulcast, are now expected to start in JUNE.

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