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affiliations = [[NBC]]<br>[[The CW Television Network| |
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Revision as of 17:39, 7 July 2008
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WVVA, channel 6, is an NBC-affiliated television station in Bluefield, West Virginia, owned by the Quincy Newspapers media chain. The station's studios are located in Bluefield, and its transmitter is based at East River Mountain, near the West Virginia-Virginia border.
WVVA also carries an affiliation with the CW Television Network on its second digital subchannel (6.2). Prior to the launch of the CW network in September 2006, WVVA operated "WBB", the area's cable only affiliate of CW's predecessor, the WB Television Network.
History
The station was founded on July 31, 1955, under the only special allocation of a VHF allotment given to Bluefield under the original Federal Communications Commission allotment system. Its original call letters were WHIS-TV, named for West Virginia politician Hugh Ike Shott. Shott died in 1953, two years before the station made it to air, and his heirs were WVVA's original owners.
The Shott family controlled not only WHIS-TV, but also an AM and FM radio station combination, and the city's only daily newspaper, the Bluefield Daily Telegraph. Although their media holdings in Bluefield were considered a monopoly by some, only the newspaper was a vehicle for their conservative political views.
In 1975, the FCC decreed that a single company could not own all of the media outlets in one area, and required the Shott family to break up their Bluefield holdings. In 1979, after four years of litigation, the decision was made to sell the television station, which went to Quincy, Illinois-based Quincy Newspapers. After the sale was completed, the new owners changed the station's call letters to WVVA, which stands for the states which WVVA serves, West Virginia and Virginia. WVVA continues to be the dominant station in the market's television ratings.
Digital television
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
| Subchannel | Programming |
|---|---|
| 6.1 / 46.1 | main WVVA/NBC programming |
| 6.2 / 46.2 | Two Virginias' CW |
Analog-to-digital conversion
After the analog television shutdown and digital conversion, which is tentatively scheduled to take place on February 17, 2009 [1], WVVA will remain on its current pre-transition channel number, 46.[2] However, through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers will display WVVA's virtual channel as 6.
Current Personalities
News Anchors
- Greg Carter (6:00PM anchor)
- (Vacant Position) (6 and 11 PM anchor)
- Norm Miller (5:00PM anchor)
- Stacia Harris (morning)
Meteorologists
- Corey Henderson (chief)
- Sarah Nolte (morning)
- Larry Scott (weekend)
Sports
- P.J Ziegler
- Jordan Conigliaro
Reporters
- Kelly Camarote
- Erica Greenway