WRIQ
WRIQ is a National Public Radio formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Charles City, Virginia, serving the Richmond/Petersburg area. WRIQ is part of the Radio IQ network, simulcasting the NPR news and talk programming of flagship WVTF. WRIQ is owned by Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University through its fundraising arm, the Virginia Tech Foundation.History
launched the station as WAUQ in 2000, relaying its American Family Radio network which featured a mix of Christian teaching and Contemporary Christian music.
On August 18, 2015, Educational Media Foundation purchased the station from the American Family Association for $1.25 million. EMF began relaying its K-Love network on the station, and changed the station's call letters to WLRJ.
On April 17, 2017, WLRJ began stunting with a continuously-repeating informational loop informing listeners that K-Love in Richmond had moved, and directing listeners to EMF's recently acquired stations on 98.9 FM and 100.3 FM.
On April 26, 2017, WLRJ began relaying EMF's Radio Nueva Vida network. The station changed its call sign to WNVU on December 22, 2017.
On October 11, 2019, EMF filed with the Federal Communications Commission an application to sell WNVU to the Virginia Tech Foundation, operator of Roanoke NPR member stations WVTF and WVTF Music, for $2.15 million.. The sale closed on December 27, 2019, and the station began simulcasting Radio IQ programming on January 15, 2020. That same day, the call sign WRIQ was moved from a co-owned Radio IQ station in Lexington, Virginia, which became WIQR.
