VOAR (AM)
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| City | Mount Pearl, Newfoundland and Labrador |
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| Branding | VOAR |
| Frequency | 1210 kHz (AM) 96.7 MHz (FM) |
| First air date | 1929 |
| Format | Religious |
| Power | 10,000 watts (day and night) |
| Class | B |
| Callsign meaning | Voice Of Adventist Radio |
| Owner | The Seventh-day Adventist Church in Newfoundland & Labrador |
| Website | www.voar.org |
VOAR (Voice of Adventist Radio) is a Canadian radio station, which airs religious programming in Mount Pearl, Newfoundland and Labrador at 1210 kHz.
The station first broadcast in the fall of 1929. Over the years, the station switched from one AM frequency to another, until VOAR moved to its current frequency, which was approved by the CRTC in 1991. Since 2002 it was broadcasting mainly on FM.
VOAR is one of just four broadcast radio stations (all in Newfoundland) in Canada whose call letters do not begin with C. The others, VOWR, VOCM, and VOCM-FM, are based in St. John's, where VOAR initially was based. With the exception of VOCM-FM, these stations first aired before Newfoundland joined the Canadian Confederation in 1949. The ITU prefix VO was originally assigned to Newfoundland and remains in use by Newfoundland and Labrador radioamateurs.
On October 6, 2016, the CRTC received an application from VOAR to convert to the FM band as VOAR-FM at 96.7 MHz at 100 kW of power, and to shut down its AM 1210 kHz signal and its Bay Roberts repeater, with the remainder becoming repeaters of the new FM signal. Reasons for the conversion request stated in the application were listener confusion with VOWR (both stations receive each other's mail), signal reception issues in portions of the St. John's area, and the AM station's transmitter (installed in 1990) reaching the end of its usable life. On June 27, 2017, the CRTC approved VOAR's application to replace its english-language religious AM radio programming undertaking VOAR Mount Pearl and its rebroadcasting transmitter VOAR-1-FM Bay Roberts. The new FM station in Mount Pearl will operate at 96.7 MHz (channel 244C1) with an effective radiated power of 100,000 watts (non-directional antenna with an effective height of antenna above average terrain of 156.8 metres).
In 2002, VOAR has added several FM rebroadcast transmitters in various parts of the province. VOAR is also carried across Canada on Bell TV Channel 950 and Rogers Cable Channel 929.
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