Real Oldies 97.9 the WREN

At Real Oldies 97.9 WREN we play a wide selection of oldies from the 50's, 60's, 70's and early 80's with nearly 3,000 songs in our primary music library alone! WREN is a non-commercial radio station located in Charlottesville, VA with volunteer DJs on the air from 6 AM to 9 PM. Donations keep 97.9 The WREN operating. We are a 501(c)3 not for profit organization so all donations are tax deductible. More info is at 979WREN.org. Thanks for listening!

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Country: USA Virginia
Genre(s): Classic, Oldies

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Station owner

Genesis Communications

Year of establishment

2016

Address

394 Hillsdale+Dr.

Postal / zip code

22901

City

Charlottesville

History

Planning for WREN started in 2011. We first signed on March 14, 2016. The event was quite unceremonious! Jon Hall, the General Manager, Engineer, and only station employee simply left the station on one night after deciding that the studio was generally complete! The first programming was provided by a five disc CD player. Later a 100 and then a 200 disc player were found. That was our programming effort for the first six weeks or so until our Wide Orbit automation system was brought on line. In 2017, Mike McB (McBlair) took over the morning show. Mike is the Operations Manager and Volunteer Coordinator. At that point we were extremely fortunate to have some very good people come on board and we gradually became a real radio station. Our current volunteers include Jon Hall who with his wife Sharon are the founders. Dan Thomas, our first volunteer, is still with us. Other early volunteers include Murphy (Wayne Batdorf), Peter Quist , Jeff Lenert, John Henrie and Nancy V. Our newest volunteers are Slice and Gabby Fuller. Our emeritus volunteers include Ben Chambers, Nora Gale, Chris Connors and Lisa Allen.

Mike & Murphy

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DJ: Mike McB & Murphy

Genres: Oldies, Classic

Locally produced, weekly two hour themed oldies show with history and commentary. Airs from 10-12 Noon on Friday and repeats from 9-11 Am on Sunday.

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