WVVA-TV
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Bluefield - Beckley - Oak Hill, West Virginia United States |
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| Branding | WVVA (general) WVVA News (newscasts) Two Virginias' CW (on DT2) MeTV (on DT3) |
| Slogan |
Here For You! TV Now (on DT2) MeTV Two Virginias (on DT3) |
| Channels |
Digital: 46 (UHF) (to move to 17 (UHF)) Virtual: 6 () |
| Subchannels | (see article) |
| Translators | 43 (UHF) Beckley, WV (construction permit) |
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| Owner |
Quincy Media (WVVA License, LLC) |
| Founded | October 29, 1954 |
| First air date | July 31, 1955 |
| Call letters' meaning | USPS abbreviations for West Virginia and VirginiA |
| Former callsigns | WHIS-TV (1955–1979) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 6 (VHF, 1955–2009) |
| Transmitter power | 1,000 kW |
| Height | 372 m (1,220 ft) |
| Facility ID | 74176 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 37°15′21.1″N 81°10′53.3″W / 37.255861°N 81.181472°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www |
WVVA, channel 6, is an NBC-affiliated television station located in Bluefield, West Virginia, USA, owned by Quincy Media. The station's studios are located on U.S. Route 460 in Bluefield, and its transmitter is based at East River Mountain, near the West Virginia-Virginia border.
The station went on the air on July 31, 1955, under the special commitment of a VHF allotment made to Bluefield following the release of the Federal Communications Commission's Sixth Report and Order in 1952. Because of its proposed antenna height and location on East River Mountain, the channel 6 allocation in Bluefield was short-spaced to WATE-TV (also on channel 6) in Knoxville, Tennessee and side-spaced to WCYB-TV (on adjacent channel 5) in Bristol, Virginia. As a result, the proposed station on the channel 6 frequency would therefore be limited to one-half of the visual maximum effective radiated power, or 50,000 watts effective radiated power.
The station's original call letters were WHIS-TV, named for West Virginia politician Hugh Ike Shott. Shott died in 1953, two years before the station made it to air, and his heirs were channel 6's original owners. The Shotts constructed a privately owned microwave relay system to receive NBC programming from WSLS-TV in Roanoke, Virginia, the closest and most accessible city receiving network signals. When it was completed in September WHIS-TV began carrying NBC programs, the first being The Pinky Lee Show. The station's operations were originally housed in the Bluefield Municipal Building; on January 1, 1967, the WHIS stations moved into new facilities on Big Laurel Highway (U.S. Routes 19 and 460), known as "Broadcast Center," and channel 6 began full color operations.
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