However, three years later, the station was almost shut down when Lyndon State College teachers complained about electromagnetic radiation, though administration kept it on the air; WWLR had been forced off the air earlier in 1984 in order to rectify interference to the meteorology equipment in the college's atmospheric sciences program.
[6] Vermont Public announced its acquisition of the WWLR license from Northern Vermont University—Lyndon on December 16, 2022, with the intent of adding the station to its classical music network; the student-run programming would continue as an Internet radio station.
The trustees of the Vermont State Colleges had voted to put WWLR up for sale in October 2022, after having earlier approved a plan to relinquish the license in December 2021.
Vermont Public took the station silent on May 1 to prepare for changes required to transmit its signal.
The call sign was changed to WVLR-FM on October 30, 2023;[8] on November 6, it resumed broadcasting at reduced power under special temporary authority[9] as part of Vermont Public Classical.