[5] After founding owners Island Teleradio Service, Inc. sold the TV outlet in 1970, WBNB's call letters were changed to the present WVWI in order to comply with an FCC rule in place then that required TV and radio stations in the same market, but with different ownership to use different call signs.
[6][7] The station's co-founder, Robert Noble, acquired sole control of WVWI that same year, renaming his new company Thousand Islands Corporation.
Local businessman Gordon Ackley purchased WVWI and its FM sister station, WWKS, from Knight in 2006.
The two men were partners in another radio station, WVJZ, and Ackley also bought out Knight's 50 percent interest in that outlet.
Effective January 1, 2021, Ackley sold WVWI to Alma Francis Heyliger's Infinity Broadcasting, LLC for $160,000.