WUVA (Radio station : Charlottesville, Va.)

found: Letters and memoranda to Robert K. Gooch, 1947-1949:("Radio Station WUVA")

found: WUVA website, 11/3/2008:("WUVA 92.7 Kiss FM; beginning operations as a closed-circuit, 'carrier current' AM station in the fall of 1947, broadcasting to the 'old dorms' and other nearby buildings on 640 kHz from studios in the basement of Madison Hall ... it was static-prone, low-power AM ... sought and secured permission from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to operate as commercial broadcasters, selling advertising to support themselves, and evolving into a unique breed within the species: student owned and operated -- yet fully self-supporting -- commercial broadcast operations ... on June 22, 1979, the station began full-fledged broadcast operations on 92.7 FM")