university of miami events and news were the sole programming for wvum in the 1960s. community news programming and a top-40 radio format were introduced in the early 1970s, and the station changed to the underground programming in the early 1980s that focused on new wave and punk rock. in the 1990s, the station had a grunge period; today, wvum's format is largely reflective of the indie electronic and indie rock genres.