Syndicated weekend hosts include Kim Komando, Glenn Beck, Todd Starnes, "Our American Stories with Lee Habeeb," "Bill Handel on the Law," "Rich DeMuro on Tech," "Sunday Nights with Bill Cunningham" and "Somewhere in Time with Art Bell."

Although three-letter call signs were still available when the station was started, "WRVA" was chosen since it stands for Richmond, Virginia.

The early WRVA facilities were a small studio in a corner of a warehouse on Richmond's Tobacco Row using a tower mounted on the roof of the building.

Initially it was an NBC Red Network affiliate, carrying its dramas, comedies, news, sports, soap operas, game shows and big band broadcasts during the "Golden Age of Radio."

"[7] An FM outlet was established in Norfolk, on June 6, 1948, when WRVC began broadcasting on 102.5 MHz, "airing shows of CBS, duplicating parts of the WRVA schedule and originating some of its own programs.

Its daytime signal provides at least secondary coverage to most of the eastern portion of Virginia, from Hampton Roads to Fredericksburg.

At night (when the AM signals travel farther), WRVA can be heard across most of the eastern half of North America with a good radio.

In the 1970s, the Millard the Mallard character carried on dialogue with announcers during the morning rush hour traffic reports.

An overnight country music program headed by "Big John" Trimble targeted truckers in the 1970s, again taking advantage of the large nighttime coverage area of the clear channel station.

Broadcasting from a remote studio located at Jarrell's Truck Stop in Doswell, Virginia, the show ran for eighteen years.

[10] In 1974, the WRVA traffic helicopter lost a tail rotor at a low altitude and crashed into a house on West 31st Street in South Richmond, killing WRVA reporter Howard Bloom, the pilot, and a small child eating dinner with his family.

Total Traffic did reports for WRVA, as well as other stations in the Clear Channel Communications Richmond Group.

WRVA and WRVB acquired a television sister station in 1956, when WRVA-TV began broadcasting on channel 12.

In 1968, WRVA-TV was sold to Jefferson Standard Broadcasting (later Jefferson-Pilot), owner of WBT, WBT-FM, and WBTV in Charlotte, North Carolina.

In November 2004, a station using the call sign WRVA-FM began serving the Raleigh-Durham market of North Carolina at 100.7 MHz.

On November 1, 2017, iHeartMedia announced that WRVA, along with its sister stations in Richmond and Chattanooga, would be sold to Entercom after that company's merger with CBS Radio.

Featured are historical documents, sound files, print artifacts, and such local interest items as the shoes of the late announcer Alden Aaroe, who founded an annual program that has raised over $5.6 million to provide shoes for needy children over a 36-year period.

On May 5, 2014, WRVA began simulcasting on FM translator 98.5 W253BI (licensed to Glen Allen, Virginia) via WTVR-FM's HD2 subchannel.

[16] The subchannel was used to improve the AM station's nighttime coverage; WRVA must adjust its signal at sunset to protect adjacent channel WBBR in New York City.

On January 1, 2018, after Entercom acquired the station, WRVA began simulcasting on FM translator W241AP (96.1 MHz) in Midlothian, again using WTVR-FM's HD2 subchannel.