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. Its transmitter is located in Suffolk, Virginia. WVBT broadcasts its analog signal on Channel 43, and is sister station to WAVY-TV.

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 1998, and WVBT became a Fox affiliate that August, sending the WB affiliation to WTVZ. LIN purchased the station out-right in February 2002.

Every Night at 10 PM, FOX 43 broadcasts "FOX 43 News at 10: Your Late News an Hour Earlier". It features local news and weather from sister station WAVY News 10's Super Doppler 10 weather center. The news program lasts 45 minutes, and is followed up by the "FOX 43 SportsWrap", with sports news and highlights from the previous day, anchored by WAVY sports director Bruce Rader on weekdays and Ahmed Fareed on weekends. The news is broadcast by WAVY news anchors and local reports come from WAVY reporters as well.

Logos

Image:Wvbt95-98.gif|Logo used as a WB affiliate. Image:Wvbt_logo.jpg|Logo from 1998 until the present, when WVBT became a FOX affiliate.

External links

Terrestrial television>Broadcast television in the Norfolk / Virginia Beach / Newport News, Virginia (Hampton Roads) market [(Nielsen DMA #42)]
WUND 2 / WUNP 36 (PBS/UNC-TV) - WTKR 3 (CBS) - WSKY 4 (Ind) - WAVY 10 (NBC) - WVEC 13 (ABC) - WHRO 15 (PBS) - WHRE 21 (TBN) - WGNT 27 (UPN/The CW) - WTVZ 33 (The WB/My Network TV) - WVBT 43 (Fox) - WPXV 49 (i)
Local cable & satellite television channels
LNC5

Fox Network Affiliates in the state of Virginia
WAHU-CA 27 ([[Template:Charlottesville TV\|Charlottesville]]) - WFXR 27 / WWCW 21 ([[Template:Roanoke TV\|Roanoke / Lynchburg]]) - WRLH 35 ([[Template:Richmond TV\|Richmond]]) - WVBT 43 ([[Template:Hampton Roads TV\|Virginia Beach]])
'''See also: [[Template:ABC Virginia\|ABC]], [[Template:CBS Virginia\|CBS]], [[Template:NBC Virginia\|NBC]], [[Template:PBS Virginia\|PBS]], [[Template:UPN Virginia\|UPN]], [[Template:WB Virginia\|WB]] and [[Template:Other Virginia Stations\|Other]] stations in Virginia

LIN TV Corporation

ABC Network Affiliates: WOTV | WTNH

Fox Network Affiliates: WALA | WLUK | WNAC⁶ | WUPW | WVBT

The WB Network Affiliates: KNVA⁴⁵⁶ | KSCW²⁴ | WWHO⁴ | WBPG⁴

Other stations: KBVO (TeleFutura) | WAPA (Independent)⁷ | WIIH (Univision) | WJPX (MTV)⁷

¹Co-owned with NBC Universal in a joint venture (76% owned by NBC, 24% owned by LIN).
KNSD also includes a repeater used for rebroadcast of Entravision's KBNT-CA.

²Co-owned with Banks Broadcasting in a joint venture (50/50); however, LIN does not control these stations.

³Co-owned with Block Communications in a joint venture (34% owned by LIN, 66% owned by Block Communications), with LIN controlling this station.

⁴Stations confirmed to affiliate with The CW in September 2006.

⁵Stations confirmed to affiliate with My Network TV in September 2006.

⁶LIN operates these stations under a local marketing agreement.

⁷LIN has put these stations up for sale; no buyer named yet.

Annual Revenue: Unknown at this time. | Employees: Unknown at this time. | Stock Symbol: NYSE: [TVL] | Website: [www.lintv.com]

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