WVII-TV
 
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Bangor, Maine United States |
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| Branding | ABC 7 (general) ABC 7 News (newscasts) Fox 22 (on DT2) |
| Slogan | Focused on Your Community and Our Towns |
| Channels |
Digital: 7 (VHF) Virtual: 7 (PSIP) |
| Subchannels | (see article) |
| Translators | WFVX-LD 22.2 Bangor |
| Affiliations | ABC |
| Owner |
Rockfleet Broadcasting (Bangor Communications, LLC) |
| First air date | October 15, 1965 |
| Call letters' meaning | VII = 7 in Roman numerals |
| Sister station(s) | WFVX-LD, WJFW-TV |
| Former callsigns | WEMT (1965–1976) |
| Former channel number(s) | 7 (VHF analog, 1965–2009) 14 (UHF digital, 2002–2009) |
| Transmitter power | 14 kW |
| Height | 229 m |
| Class | DT |
| Facility ID | 3667 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 44°45′43.2″N 68°33′56.2″W / 44.762000°N 68.565611°W |
| Website | foxbangor.com |
WVII-TV, channel 7, is the ABC affiliate for Bangor, Maine, USA. WVII-TV is owned and operated by Rockfleet Broadcasting, and is sister to low-power Fox affiliate WFVX-LD (channel 22). The two stations share studios located on Target Industrial Circle in West Bangor, and WVII's transmitter is based on Black Cap Mountain.
WVII-TV serves as the default ABC affiliate through cable for the Presque Isle market, as that area does not have an ABC affiliate of its own.
The station signed on October 15, 1965 as WEMT under the ownership of Downeast Television, an ownership group that included Melvin Stone, owner of WGUY (1250 AM, later WNSW on 1200 AM; now defunct) and Rumford's WRUM, and Herbert Hoffman, owner of WBOS-AM-FM in Boston. Until WEMT went on the air, ABC maintained secondary affiliations with CBS affiliate WABI-TV and NBC affiliate WLBZ-TV. It is the only television station in Bangor to have never switched its network affiliation. Downeast sold WEMT to Eastern Maine Broadcasting Systems (a subsidiary of Valley Communications, owner of WPNO in Auburn and WSKW and WTOS-FM in Skowhegan) on February 2, 1976. The new owners changed the station's call letters to WVII-TV that September. Eastern Maine Broadcasting Systems sold the station to Seaway Communications, a minority-controlled company that already owned WAEO-TV (now WJFW-TV) in Rhinelander, Wisconsin, on July 23, 1982.
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