WVWI

In addition to its regular programming, this station airs the "dLife Diabetes Minute" health advisory program{{cite web |url=http://www.dlife.com/dLife/do/ShowContent/resources/dlife_radio/station_listing.html#44 |title=dLife Radio Affiliates |work=LifeMed Media |date=2006-01-20}} and Major League Baseball games as an affiliate of the Atlanta Braves radio network.{{cite web |work=The Official Site of the Atlanta Braves |url=http://mlb.mlb.com/atl/schedule/affiliates.jsp |title=Affiliate Radio Stations}}

The station began operations in October 1962 as WBNB (the callsign stood for Bob aNd Bob, as in Bob Noble and Bob Moss, the station's co-founders) co-owned with the now-defunct WBNB-TV, the Virgin Islands' first television station.{{cite journal|title = Radio stations: Virgin Islands-Charlotte Amalie|journal = Broadcasting Yearbook|pages = B-208|publisher = Broadcasting Publications, Inc.|location = Washington, D.C.|date = 1963|url = http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-YB-IDX/60s-OCR-YB/1963-YB/1963-BC-YB-for-OCR-Page-0406.pdf|accessdate = 2013-03-20}} After founding owners Island Teleradio Service, Inc. sold the TV outlet in 1970, WBNB's call letters were changed to the present WVWI in order to comply with an FCC rule in place then that required TV and radio stations in the same market, but with different ownership to use different call signs.[http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-IDX/70-OCR/1970-06-01-BC-0062.pdf "For the Record: Existing FM stations-Call letter actions."] Broadcasting, June 1, 1970, pg. 62.[http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-IDX/70-OCR/1970-05-11-BC-0043.pdf "Cable group moves into broadcast."] Broadcasting, May 11, 1970, pg. 43. The station's co-founder, Robert Noble, acquired sole control of WVWI that same year, renaming his new company Thousand Islands Corporation. After its facilities were destroyed by Hurricane Marilyn in September 1995, Noble sold the station in 1996 to Randolph Knight, who proceeded to rebuild the station;.{{cite journal|title = Radio stations: Virgin Islands-Charlotte Amalie|journal = Broadcasting & Cable Yearbook|volume = 1|pages = B-515|publisher = Reed Elsevier.|location = New Providence, New Jersey|date = 1997|url = http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-YB-IDX/90s-OCR-YB/1997-YB/1997-BC-YB-for-OCR-Page-0685.pdf|accessdate = 2013-03-20}} its former TV cousin, WBNB-TV was forced off the air when Hurricane Hugo destroyed its transmitter six years earlier in 1989, and unlike WVWI, WBNB-TV's owners, Benedek Broadcasting, did not have the financial means to rebuild the station, and stayed dark as a result.

Local businessman Gordon Ackley purchased WVWI and its FM sister station, WWKS, from Knight in 2006. The two men were partners in another radio station, WVJZ, and Ackley also bought out Knight's 50 percent interest in that outlet.{{cite web |url=http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6329687.html |title=Deals |author=BIA Financial Networks |work=Broadcasting & Cable |date=2006-05-01}}{{cite web |url=http://www.onepaper.com/stthomasvi/?v=d&i=&s=News:Local&p=1147234763 |title=Knight to Sell Radio One, KISS and JAMZ |work=St. Thomas Source |date=2006-04-28 |last=Pennington |first=Shaun A. |accessdate= December 25, 2007}} On July 1, 2017, the station changed its callsign to WWKS but on July 6, the station reverted to its prior callsign WVWI.

Effective January 1, 2021, Ackley sold WVWI to Alma Francis Heyliger's Infinity Broadcasting, LLC for $160,000.

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Category:News and talk radio stations in insular areas of the United States

Category:Radio stations established in 1962

Category:1962 establishments in the United States Virgin Islands

Category:Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands