Owned by Vincennes University, it is sister to campus radio station WVUB (91.1 FM).

With competition from two television stations—WEHT and WFIE—out of the nearby Evansville market, WRAY-TV was never successful and ceased operations after seven months, except for annual March of Dimes telethons through 1960.

In late 1960, Vincennes University purchased the studio equipment; WRAY-TV's license was surrendered to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in February 1961.

WVUT first signed on the air on February 15, 1968 (formal programming began four days later), as a member station of National Educational Television (NET).

The station's digital signal is multiplexed: WVUT discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over UHF channel 22, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate.