| WXRK-LP | |
| Logo Upright: | .6 |
| City: | Charlottesville, Virginia |
| Country: | US |
| Branding: | Rock Hits 92-3 |
| Erp: | 21 watts |
| Haat: | 63m (207feet) |
| Class: | L1 |
| Facility Id: | 192547 |
| Coordinates: | 38.0776°N -78.4722°W |
| Callsign Meaning: | previously held by WXRK in New York |
| Owner: | Blue Ridge Free Media |
| Licensing Authority: | FCC |
WXRK-LP is an active rock and alternative rock formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Charlottesville, Virginia, serving Charlottesville and Albemarle County in Virginia. WXRK-LP is owned and operated by Blue Ridge Free Media.
WXRK-LP signed on the air on September 7, 2015. The call sign for the station was previously held by WXRK-FM in New York City. From its outset, the station has aired a combination of active rock and alternative rock.
In September 2019, Saga Communications, which operates the Charlottesville Radio Group under the Tidewater Communications licensee, filed a petition with the FCC requesting that WXRK-LP's license not be renewed. Saga claimed the station, along with other Charlottesville-based low-power FMs, were operating as "a de facto cluster". The station's founder Mike Friend called the petition to deny "'legal junk' and a deliberate 'misinterpretation' of FCC rules". Friend pointed to other attempts by Saga to shutter low-power FM stations within Saga markets.
Saga, in 2004, claimed that KFLO-LP in Jonesboro, Arkansas, was airing announcements that "sound suspiciously like commercials". Saga also petitioned the FCC to revoke the license of WLCQ-LP, a Christian station in the Springfield, Massachusetts, market, "for equipment violations" in 2015. In both cases, the FCC "admonished the station" but denied Saga's complaints.
Jeff Lenert, co-founder of then-progressive talk station WPVC-LP, said that "though [the stations] share a building" all of "the stations all operate separately, having only limited and largely incidental contact with each other". Lenert turned in the license for WPVC-LP on June 16, 2020, "As a result of the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic and recent increased costs of station ownership and operation, it has become impossible to operate station WPVC-LP in the manner that I wish." Lenert largely blamed the "legal action by Saga Communications combined with a loss of sponsors during the pandemic" for the signing off of that station.
As of October 2024, the FCC has not acted on the Petition from Saga and WXRK-LP continues to broadcast. A similar petition from Saga seeking regarding the license of WREN-LP, housed in the same building, was largely denied in September 2024 but resulted in a short-term license renewal for that station and a consent decree regarding impermissible underwriting announcements.