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WAVY airs thirty hours of local news a week. It operates its own weather radar, called "Super Doppler 10", at its studios.It was the first in the area to air a local morning broadcast at 5:30 a.m., beginning in 1992, and added weeknight newscasts at 5 p.m. in 1989 and 5:30 p.m. in 1994. [32]
It was carried by Cox Communications on channel 5 within Hampton Roads. Pilot 13 News at 10 ceased production on January 30, 2009, however, the partnership with the Virginian-Pilot was expected to continue on a lesser level. LNC5 was closed on December 31, 2010. On January 12, 2008, WVEC started producing local newscasts in digital widescreen 16x9.
Until January 2007, WAVY operated a 24-hour local weather channel called "WAVY Weather Station" on WVBT's second digital subchannel taking advantage of its 720p signal to present the service without interfering with video quality on either WAVY or WVBT. It was made cable-only in 2007 for unknown reasons, and eventually went dark in 2011.
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Area served City of license VC RF Callsign Network Notes Charlottesville: 19 32 WCAV: CBS: Ion on 19.4, Fox on 27.1 : 29 2 WVIR-TV: NBC: WeatherNation on 29.2, CW on 29.3, True Crime Network on 29.5
WPXV-TV (channel 49) is a television station licensed to Norfolk, Virginia, United States, serving as the Ion Television affiliate for the Hampton Roads area. Owned by Inyo Broadcast Holdings, the station has studios on Nansemond Parkway in Suffolk, Virginia, adjacent to the transmitter tower it shares with ABC affiliate WVEC (channel 13).
In 1976 he joined WAVY-TV, a Lin Media company now Nexstar Media Group as the weekend sportscaster and weekday news reporter for the NBC affiliate covering Virginia Beach. On January 1, 1979, he was named sports director and primary sports anchor. Rader, noted for his energetic style, changed the way local sports were presented in the market.
The Hampton Roads designated market area (DMA) is the 42nd largest in the U.S. with 712,790 homes (0.64% of the total U.S.). [73] The major network television affiliates are WTKR-TV 3 , WAVY 10 , WVEC-TV 13 , WGNT 27 (Independent), WTVZ 33 (MyNetworkTV), WVBT 43 (Fox, with The CW on DT2), and WPXV 49 (ION Television).