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WAVY-TV (channel 10) is a television station licensed to Portsmouth, Virginia, United States, serving the Hampton Roads area as an affiliate of NBC. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside Virginia Beach –licensed dual Fox affiliate/ CW owned-and-operated station WVBT (channel 43).
Channel Callsign City of license Dates Affiliation Notes 16: WWOD-TV: Lynchburg: 1952 – July 10, 1953 (CP) construction permit forfeited 20: WARL-TV: Arlington: 1956–1960 (CP) construction permit canceled 24: WBTM-TV: Danville: January 6, 1954 – December 31, 1954: ABC: 27: WTOV-TV: Norfolk: October 22, 1953 – October 3, 1954 May 25 ...
So on November 13, 1959, [7] WVEC-TV moved to its current location on VHF channel 13. Two years later, the channel 15 position would be occupied by current PBS member station WHRO-TV. In 1980, Chisman sold the station to Corinthian Broadcasting, [8] a unit of Dun & Bradstreet. At the time of the sale, it was the last locally owned and operated ...
Public broadcasting in the U.S. has often been more decentralized, and less likely to have a single network feed appear across most of the country (though some latter-day public networks such as World Channel and Create have had more in-pattern clearance than National Educational Television or its successor PBS have had). Also, local stations ...
WVBT (channel 43) is a television station licensed to Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States, serving the Hampton Roads area as an affiliate of the Fox network. Its second digital subchannel serves as an owned-and-operated station of The CW. WVBT is owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside Portsmouth-licensed NBC affiliate WAVY-TV (channel 10).
ABC did likewise in September and affiliated with the new WTOV-TV (channel 27) in Portsmouth. [24] However, ABC and DuMont continued to also be affiliated with WTAR-TV. [25] DuMont ceased its existence as a network in 1955, [26] while a full-time ABC affiliate debuted when WAVY-TV signed on channel 10 in 1957. [27]
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However, WAVY-TV protested on economic grounds, believing a third VHF station in its market would hurt it, [25] and it was not until April 1959 that the FCC granted an initial decision in its favor in the case. [26] [27] WTOV left the air in August 1959; [28] WVEC-TV moved from channel 15 to channel 13 on November 13, 1959. [29]