WVIK

WVIK

City of license	Rock Island, Illinois
Broadcast area	Quad Cities
Branding	Augustana Public Radio
Frequency	90.3 (MHz)
Repeaters	K240DZ 95.9 FM Dubuque, Iowa
First air date	1980 (on 90.1, moved to 90.3 in 1991)
Format	NPR news and classical music
ERP	31,000 watts
HAAT	334 meters
Class	C1
Owner	Augustana College
Website	WVIK Web Site

WVIK (90.3 FM) is the flagship National Public Radio station for the Quad Cities region of eastern Iowa and northwestern Illinois. It is licensed to Rock Island, Illinois and owned by Augustana College. Studios are located on Augustana's campus in Rock Island. The station also operates a low-powered translator, K240DZ, at 95.9 FM in Dubuque, Iowa.

The station signed on for the first time on August 25, 1980 on 90.1 FM. The Quad Cities had been one of the last areas of Iowa and Illinois without a city-grade signal from an NPR station. Prior to 1980, the only source of NPR programming in the area had been a low-powered translator of Cedar Falls' KUNI, though much of the area got grade B coverage from Iowa City's WSUI. In 1991, it moved to its current frequency, and activated its Dubuque translator in 1996.

External links

• Query the FCC's FM station database for WVIK
• Radio-Locator information on WVIK
• Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for WVIK
• Augustana Public Radio
• Listen to WVIK via Internet