WVTF Music

WVTF (89.1 FM) is a non-commercial educational radio station licensed to serve Roanoke, Virginia, featuring a public radio format branded "Radio IQ". Owned by Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) through its fundraising arm, the Virginia Tech Foundation, the station carries programming from NPR, the Public Radio Exchange, American Public Media and the BBC World Service.

WVTF is a listener-supported station, holding periodic fundraisers on the air. The studios and offices are inside the WVTF Public Radio Broadcast Center on Kingsbury Lane in Roanoke, with satellite studios inside Suite C102 on West Water Street in Charlottesville. WVTF has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 100,000 watts, the maximum for most FM radio stations in the U.S. The transmitter is on Poor Mountain, off Media Way in Bent Mountain, Virginia. WVTF broadcasts using HD Radio technology. The station's HD-2 digital subchannel simulcasts the "WVTF Music" format from co-owned 89.9 WWVT-FM in Ferrum, Virginia, playing classical music and jazz. The HD-3 subchannel carries Christian Contemporary music from WRVL Lynchburg, Virginia. In addition to WVTF, Radio IQ is heard on 16 rebroadcasters and FM translators around Virginia. The combined footprint of the full-power stations reaches from Southwest Virginia to the fringes of Hampton Roads.