WVUS must leave the air from sunset to sunrise to prevent nighttime skywave interference to the Class A stations.

WVUS was first licensed as WVVW in 1957; a condition of the station's launch was that principal J. Patrick Beacom had to relinquish his interest in WTCS in Fairmont.

In August 2002, WTBZ-FM was sold to Educational Media Foundation (becoming a K-Love affiliate), while WTBZ dropped country for a rhythmic contemporary hit radio format.

Tocco cited low ad revenue and high operating costs as reasons for the sale, and gave a shutdown date of December 31.

[citation needed] On March 8, 2010, WVUS dropped its adult standards format for Catholic radio programming.