he station is owned and operated by Audacy, Inc.[2] WWDE-FM has studios and offices on Clearfield Avenue in Virginia Beach, and its transmitter is off East Indian River Road in Norfolk.

The station first signed on the air on June 1, 1962, owned by Dick Lamb, Larry Saunders and Gene Loving.

Its call letters were WVHR, and it aired a middle of the road music format, sometimes simulcast with its AM sister station.

Its longtime adult contemporary format started on July 31, 1978, with Lamb and sidekick Paul Richardson hosting the "2WD Breakfast Bunch" until January 28, 2005.

[4] In May 1987, a WWDE overnight DJ, Debbie Dicus, was murdered in broad daylight while tending to her garden in a public park in Hampton.