WCAX-TV
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Burlington, Vermont/Plattsburgh, New York United States |
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| City | Burlington, Vermont |
| Branding | WCAX Channel 3 Movies! (on DT2) |
| Slogan | Vermont's most trusted news source |
| Channels |
Digital: 22 (UHF) Virtual: 3 () |
| Subchannels | 3.1 CBS 3.2 Movies! 3.3 Ion Television |
| Translators | 20 W20CS-D Rutland VT |
| Owner | Mount Mansfield Television, Inc. (Martin family) |
| First air date | September 26, 1954 (in Montpelier, moved to Burlington in 1955) |
| Call letters' meaning | derived from former sister station WCAX radio (now WVMT) |
| Former callsigns | WMVT (1954–1955) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 3 (VHF, 1954–2009) |
| Former affiliations |
Secondary: Fox (1994–1997) |
| Transmitter power | 443 kW |
| Height | 845 m (2,772 ft) |
| Facility ID | 46728 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 44°31′33.5″N 72°48′55.9″W / 44.525972°N 72.815528°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www |
WCAX-TV, channel 3, is a television station in Burlington, Vermont, USA. WCAX-TV is affiliated with the CBS Television Network and has been locally owned by the Hasbrook/Martin family and their company, Mount Mansfield Television, since the station's inception. WCAX-TV has studios on Joy Drive in South Burlington, and its transmitter is based on Mount Mansfield, Vermont's highest peak.
Aside from its primary coverage area of the Champlain Valley and environs, WCAX-TV's over-the-air signal also carries across the U.S.-Canada border into portions of southern Quebec. The station can be seen on cable in Montreal, as far north as Saguenay, and as far east as Gaspé. It is also available on every cable system in Vermont.
WCAX was the call sign of a station, run by students, that made the first radio broadcast from the University of Vermont campus, October 10, 1924.
Vermont's first television station, channel 3 first signed on-air on September 26, 1954 as WMVT, licensed originally to the capital city of Montpelier. The station was owned by Charles P. Hasbrook, former publisher of the now-defunct Burlington Daily News along with WCAX radio (620 AM, now WVMT), which he purchased in 1939 and sold in 1963. In May 1955 WMVT's community of license was moved from Montpelier to Burlington, the state's largest city, and one month later the station's call letters were changed to WCAX-TV to match its radio sister. In 1958 Hasbrook turned over the station's ownership to his stepson, Dr. Stuart T. "Red" Martin Jr., who ran the station until his death in 2005. An engineer by trade, Red Martin assisted his stepfather in building the station from the ground-up, and upon channel 3's sign-on became its first general manager. Peter R. Martin, Red Martin's oldest son, is the station's current president and general manager.
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