City | Ferrum, Virginia |
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Broadcast area |
Rocky Mount, Virginia Martinsville, Virginia |
Branding | WVTF Music |
Frequency | 89.9 MHz |
First air date | January, 1989 |
Format | Public Radio |
Power | 1,100 watts |
HAAT | 207 meters (679 ft) |
Class | A |
Facility ID | 21417 |
Transmitter coordinates | 36°54′50.0″N 79°57′7.0″W / 36.913889°N 79.951944°W |
Former callsigns | WFFC (1987–2017) |
Affiliations | National Public Radio |
Owner |
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech Foundation, Inc.) |
Webcast | WWVT-FM Webstream |
Website | WWVT-FM Online |
WWVT-FM is a Public Radio formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Ferrum, Virginia, serving the Rocky Mount/Martinsville area. WWVT-FM is owned and operated by Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
WWVT-FM is the FM flagship station of WVTF Music, a companion service to news/talk Radio IQ. Much of the network's weekday programming is classical music, with 20 hours Monday through Thursday and 18 hours on Fridays. Weekends include blocks of bluegrass, Americana, and jazz. National and regional shows include the Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts, Across the Blue Ridge, The Thistle and Shamrock and A Prairie Home Companion.
WVTF Music airs on two full-powered stations as well as the HD2 subchannels of the Radio IQ network headed by WVTF.