Radio IQ
Radio IQ is a radio network broadcasting news and talk programming from NPR and the BBC World Service. Owned and operated by Virginia Tech, it is a sister network to the region's flagship NPR network, WVTF, and is operated out of WVTF's studios in Roanoke.
Radio IQ's programming is heard on WWVT AM 1260 in Christiansburg, Virginia, WFFC, 89.9 FM in Ferrum, Virginia, WVTW 88.5 in Charlotteville, Virginia, WQIQ 88.3 in Spotsylvania, Virginia, WRIQ 88.7 in Lexington, Virginia, and a handful of low-power translators across central and western Virginia. Their combined power brings Radio IQ programming from the New River Valley through Richmond all the way to Fredericksburg.
History
Throughout the 1980s and 1990s WWVT 1260 AM was WJJJ and broadcast beautiful music and later '60s oldies music. From 1995 to 1998, the station had the callsign of WNNI. WWVT acquired its current call sign after the station was donated to Virginia Tech by Bocephus Broadcasting in 1998. Radio IQ was launched in January 2003.