WNVU is owned by the Houston, Texas–based non-profit Hope Media Group,[2] and broadcasts a Spanish Christian radio format known as Vida Unida.

[5] Its original call sign was WGNR-FM, owned by the New Rochelle Broadcasting Service, Inc.[5] The FM station was followed two years later by the launch of WGNR (AM).

After the appointment of a receiver, Radio New Rochelle, Inc., owned by the Iodice Family, acquired the stations and changed 93.5 FM's call letters to WNRC-FM.

By 1962, after John Hay Whitney bought the Herald-Tribune the year before, the paper's radio division included WVOX-AM-FM, WVIP, WGHQ in Kingston and WFYI (now WJDM) in Mineola.

[10] Hudson-Westchester was led by William O'Shaughnessy, a former account executive with the Herald-Tribune Radio Network who had been WVOX's general manager since 1965.

[12][13] WVOX-FM ended the simulcast with WVOX (AM) around 1977, changing its call sign to WRTN and adopting an adult standards format, playing pop classics from the 1950s, '60s and '70s.

[14] On July 3, 2023, his estate announced that WVIP would be sold to the Houston-based Hope Media Group (formerly known as WAY-FM), a nonprofit Christian radio broadcaster.