WVBT
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WVBT is the Fox Broadcasting Company affiliate serving the Norfolk-Portsmouth-Newport News, VA television market (Designated Market Area). The station is licensed to Virginia Beach. WVBT's transmitter is located in Suffolk, Virginia. WVBT broadcasts its analog signal on Channel 43, and is sister station to WAVY-TV.
History
WVBT began operation in March 1993 with Home Shopping Network programming, along with infomercials and religious shows. It affiliated with the WB network in January 1995, and shortly thereafter came under a local marketing agreement with LIN's WAVY-TV Channel 10.
LIN came to an affiliation agreement with Fox in November 1995, [1] [2] and WVBT became a Fox affiliate in August 1998, sending the WB affiliation to WTVZ. LIN purchased the station out-right in February 2002.
On May 18, 2007, LIN TV announced that it was exploring strategic alternatives that could result in the sale of the company.[3]
FOX 43 News at Ten
When WVBT made the switch to FOX in 1998, WAVY started producing a 10 p.m. newscast: FOX 43 News at Ten. The newscast is not the market's first primetime newscast, WTKR produced a short-lived newscast on WGNT from 1995 until 1997; and WVEC produced a newscast on WPEN-LP from 1995 until they started LNC4 in 1997, where WVEC continues to produce a 10 p.m. newscast to this day.
The 45-minute newscast is broadcast by WAVY anchors, reporters, and meteorologists. It is followed by the FOX 43 SportsWrap, with sports news and highlights.
Personalities
Anchors
- David Nelson and Nicole Livas - Weeknights
- Lori Crouch - Weekends
Meteorologists
- Don Slater - Weeknights
- Cheryl Nelson - Weekends
Sports
- Bruce Rader - Weeknights
- Ahmed Fareed - Weekends
Former Personalities
- Kelly Wright - Anchored weeknight newscast from its inception until 2002. Now at FOX News Channel [4]
- Krista Marino - Anchored weeknight newscast from its inception until 2001. Married to former WAVY reporter Ted Oberg [5] [6]. Now a stay-at-home mom in Houston.
- Kerri Furey - Anchored weekend newscast. Still at WAVY/WVBT, co-anchors sister station WAVY's morning and noon newscasts.
- Stephanie Harris - Anchored weekend newscast after Kerri Furey until fall 2003. Currently anchors WAVY's weekend evening newscasts.
- Derek Wing - Anchored weekend newscast after Stephanie Harris until leaving for KCPQ in Seattle in 2004.