WVEC-TV
 
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Hampton Roads, Virginia United States |
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| City | Hampton, Virginia |
| Branding | ABC 13 (general) 13 News Now (newscasts) MeTV Hampton Roads (On DT3) |
| Slogan | Telling the Stories of Now |
| Channels |
Digital: 13 (VHF) Virtual: 13 (PSIP) |
| Subchannels | 13.1 ABC 13.2 Justice Network 13.3 MeTV |
| Affiliations | ABC (secondary 1953–1957; primary 1959–present) |
| Owner |
Tegna Media (WVEC Television, Inc.) |
| First air date | September 19, 1953 |
| Call letters' meaning |
We Value Every Customer derived from former sister station WVEC radio (now WXTG) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 15 (UHF, 1953–1959) 13 (VHF, 1959–2009) Digital: 41 (UHF, 1997–2009) |
| Former affiliations |
Primary: NBC (1953–1959) Secondary: NTA (1956–1961) DT2: LWN (2010–2015) |
| Transmitter power | 35 kW |
| Height | 363 m |
| Facility ID | 74167 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 36°48′59″N 76°28′6″W / 36.81639°N 76.46833°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www.13newsnow.com |
WVEC, channel 13, is a television station licensed to Hampton, Virginia, USA, serving as the ABC affiliate for the Hampton Roads area (comprising the cities of Hampton, Norfolk, Portsmouth, Virginia Beach, and Newport News), and portions of the Outer Banks region of North Carolina. WVEC is owned by Tegna, Inc. (the former broadcast division of the Gannett Company). WVEC has its studios located in Norfolk and transmitter based in the Driver neighborhood of Suffolk, Virginia.
The station began operations on September 19, 1953, on UHF channel 15 as an NBC affiliate. It was co-owned originally by Hampton businessman Thomas P. Chisman and several other stockholders, along with WVEC radio (1490 AM, now WXTG; and 101.3 FM, now WWDE-FM). The station switched affiliations to ABC in 1959, when WAVY-TV (channel 10) took the NBC affiliation two years after signing on. During the late 1950s, WVEC-TV was also briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network.
In those days, UHF stations were not as successful as VHF stations, and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) did not yet make requirements for television sets to have UHF tuners. So on November 13, 1959, WVEC-TV moved to its current location on VHF channel 13. Two years later, the channel 15 position would be occupied by current PBS affiliate WHRO-TV.
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