WVIK

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WVIK

City	Rock Island, Illinois
Broadcast area	Quad Cities
Frequency	90.3 MHz
Branding	Quad Cities NPR
Programming
Format	NPR news and classical music
Ownership
Owner	Augustana College
History
First air date	1980 (on 90.1, moved to 90.3 in 1991)
Technical information
Class	C1
ERP	31,000 watts
HAAT	334 meters (1,096 ft)
Translator(s)	95.9 K240DZ (Dubuque, Iowa) K289BI (105.7 MHz, Davenport, Iowa)
Links
Website	WVIK Web Site

WVIK (90.3 FM) is the flagship National Public Radio station for the Quad Cities region of eastern Iowa and northwest Illinois. It is based in Rock Island, Illinois, and licensed to and owned by Augustana College. The studios are located on Augustana's campus in Rock Island. The station also operates two low-powered translators – K240DZ at 95.9 FM in Dubuque, Iowa and K289BI at 105.7 in Davenport, 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[]

• WVIK in the FCC FM station database
• WVIK on Radio-Locator
• WVIK in Nielsen Audio's FM station database
• WVIK,Quad Cities NPR

Coordinates: 41°32′49″N 90°28′37″W / 41.547°N 90.477°W / 41.547; -90.477

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