WCVE-TV
  
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WCVE: Richmond, Virginia WCVW: Richmond, Virginia WHTJ: Charlottesville, Virginia United States |
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| Branding | WCVE PBS WCVW PBS WHTJ PBS |
| Channels |
Digital: WCVE: 42 (UHF) WCVW: 44 (UHF) WHTJ: 46 (UHF) Virtual: WCVE: 23 () WCVW: 57 (PSIP) WHTJ: 41 (PSIP) |
| Subchannels | (see article) |
| Affiliations | PBS |
| Owner | Commonwealth Public Broadcasting Corporation |
| First air date |
WCVE: September 10, 1964 WCVW: December 24, 1966 WHTJ: May 19, 1989 |
| Call letters' meaning |
WCVE: Home of Thomas Jefferson |
| Sister station(s) | WCVE-FM |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: WCVE: 23 (UHF, 1964–2009) WCVW: 57 (UHF, 1966–2009) WHTJ: 41 (UHF, 1989–2009) |
| Former affiliations | NET (1964–1970) |
| Transmitter power |
WCVE: 160 kW (digital) WCVW: 100 kW (digital) WHTJ: 165 kW (digital) |
| Height |
WCVE: 346.3 m (digital) WCVW: 328 m (digital) WHTJ: 331.6 m (digital) |
| Facility ID |
WCVE: 9987 WCVW: 9989 WHTJ: 9990 |
| Transmitter coordinates |
WCVE: 37°30′44″N 77°36′4″W / 37.51222°N 77.60111°W WCVW: 37°30′45″N 77°36′5″W / 37.51250°N 77.60139°W WHTJ: 37°58′59″N 78°29′2″W / 37.98306°N 78.48389°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
/ WCVW / WHTJ Profile / WCVW / WHTJ CDBS |
| Website |
WCVE-TV WCVW WHTJ |
WCVE:
Central
Virginia
Educational
WCVE-TV is a PBS member television station licensed to Richmond, Virginia. It broadcasts on channel 23 and is owned by Commonwealth Public Broadcasting Corporation. The station is a member of PBS, of which WCVE-TV became a charter member. The station signed on for the first time in September 1964. Offices are at 23 Sesame Street in Bon Air, a suburb of Richmond. Its transmitter is located a few blocks away on 5 Sesame Street. WCVE's programming is also broadcast by a satellite in Charlottesville, Virginia on channel 41 as WHTJ. WCVE, the sister affiliate WCVW, and WHTJ were all together known locally as the Community Idea Stations, but in 2008 began using their call letters to identify themselves, simply referring to themselves each as "a Community Idea Station".
Prior to the branding change, all three stations were known as Central Virginia's Public TV until 2001.
The community-owned public broadcasting company was established in 1961 by Thomas Boushall (Chairman of the Richmond School Board and an officer of the Bank of Virginia) and a group of concerned citizens to employ television for educational purposes. The patron saints of public broadcasting in central Virginia were Boushall, E. Claiborne Robins, Sr., Mary Ann Franklin, and Bill W. Spiller. Mrs. Franklin first approached Boushall and Henry I. Willett, then Superintendent of Richmond City Schools, with the idea of establishing an educational television station. Boushall and Franklin then recruited Spiller, who was hired in December 1963 and began working for them in January 1964.
WCVE's sister station, WCVW-TV (channel 57) signed on in 1967. Richmond became the first community in Virginia to have dual stations, and only the eighth in the nation to do so, doubling the amount of instructional programming provided to schools in central Virginia. Over forty years later, both WCVE and WCVW are still in operation.
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