WVVA

Infobox_Broadcast
call_letters = WVVA
station_
station_slogan = Here For You! (WVVA)
Making a Difference (Two Virginias' CW)
station_branding = WVVA (general)
WVVA News (newscasts)
Two Virginias' CW
analog = 6 (VHF)
digital = 46 (UHF)
subchannels = (see article)
affiliations = NBC
The CW (on digital subchannel 6.2)
RTN (on digital subchannel 6.3)
founded =
airdate = July 31, 1955
location = Bluefield, West Virginia
callsign_meaning = WVVA = the USPS abbreviations for West Virginia and VirginiA
former_callsigns = WHIS-TV (1955-1979)
owner = Quincy Newspapers
licensee = WVVA Television, Inc.
effective_radiated_power = 50.1 kW (analog)
1000 kW (digital)
HAAT = 372 m (both)
facility_id = 74176
coordinates = coord|37|15|21.5|N|81|10|54.4|W|type:landmark_scale:2000 (analog)
coord|37|15|21.1|N|81|10|53.3|W|type:landmark_scale:2000 (digital)
homepage = [http://www.wvva.com/ www.wvva.com]

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 secondary affiliations with the CW Television Network and Retro Television Network. The CW is seen on its second digital subchannel (6.2), while RTN is seen on its third digital subchannel (6.3).

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.

WVVA signs-off on Sunday Night/Early Monday Mornings at 12:30am. WVVA went 24/6 with Home Shopping Club/America's Store in the early 1990's.

Digital television

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

WVVA will broadcast on digital channel 46 when the analog channel 6 shuts down on February 17, 2009. [http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf]

Current Personalities

News Anchors

*Greg Carter (6:00PM anchor)
*Erica Greenway (6 and 11 PM anchor)
*Norm Miller (5:00PM anchor)
*Stacia Harris (morning and Noon)

Meteorologists

*Corey Henderson (5:00, 6:00, and 11:00PM)
*Sarah Nolte (morning and Noon)
*Maria Chung (weekend weather/weekday reporter)

ports

*P.J Ziegler
*Casey Goetz (weekend)

Reporters

*Kelly Camarote
*Paul Hess
*Vain Colby (Speedcam)
*Julie Carchedi

ee also

*WBB (WB 100+)

External links

* [http://www.wvva.com/ WVVA website]
*TVQ|WVVA