so on february 1968, wvum received its license to broadcast a 10-watt non-commercial, educational radio station (it was barely enough power to be heard throughout the university campus). the station was located on the second floor of the whitten university center. the first call letters that was requested by the station to the fcc was wvoh (voice of hurricanes), later changed to wibs (ibis), which was later changed to and approved by the fcc as wvum (voice of the university of miami). over the years, the station's power level has increased from 35w erp to 365w erp, to 1.3kw erp, and finally to its present 5.9kw erp directional, away from a second adjacent channel station on 90.9, in the upper florida keys to the south.