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WVBT
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Virginia Beach, Virginia
Branding FOX43
Slogan First on FOX
Channels 43 (UHF) analog,
29 (UHF) digital
Affiliations Fox
Owner LIN TV
Founded 1993
Call letters meaning Virginia Beach Television
Former affiliations The WB (1995–1998)
Website www.fox43tv.com

WVBT is the Fox Broadcasting Company affiliate serving the Norfolk-Portsmouth-Newport News, VA television market (Designated Market Area). The station is licensed to Virginia Beach. WVBT's transmitter is located in Suffolk, Virginia. WVBT broadcasts its analog signal on Channel 43, and is sister station to WAVY-TV.

WVBT began operation in March 1993 with Home Shopping Network programming, along with infomercials and religious shows. It affiliated with the WB network in January 1995, and shortly thereafter came under a local marketing agreement with LIN's WAVY-TV Channel 10.

LIN came to an affiliation agreement with Fox in November 1995, [1] [2] and WVBT became a Fox affiliate in August 1998, sending the WB affiliation to WTVZ. LIN purchased the station out-right in February 2002.

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[edit] FOX 43 News at Ten

When WVBT made the switch to FOX in 1998, WAVY started producing a 10 p.m. newscast: FOX 43 News at Ten. The newscast is not the market's first primetime newscast, WTKR produced a short-lived newscast on WGNT from 1995 until 1997; and WVEC produced a newscast on WPEN-LP from 1995 until they started LNC4 in 1997, where WVEC continues to produce a 10 p.m. newscast to this day.

The 45-minute newscast is broadcast by WAVY anchors, reporters, and meteorologists. It is followed by the FOX 43 SportsWrap, with sports news and highlights.

[edit] Personalities

[edit] Anchors

  • David Nelson and Nicole Livas - Weeknights
  • Cheryl Tan - Weekends

[edit] Meteorologists

  • Don Slater - Weeknights

Cheryl Nelson - Weekends

[edit] Sports

  • Bruce Rader - Weeknights
  • Ahmed Fareed - Weekends

[edit] Former Personalities

Kelly Wright on FOX 43 News at Ten in 1999.
Kelly Wright on FOX 43 News at Ten in 1999.
  • Kelly Wright - Anchored weeknight newscast from its inception until 2002. Now at FOX News Channel [3]
  • Krista Marino - Anchored weeknight newscast from its inception until 2001. Married to former WAVY reporter Ted Oberg [4] [5]. Now a stay-at-home mom in Houston.
  • Kerri Furey - Anchored weekend newscast. Still at WAVY/WVBT, co-anchors sister station WAVY's morning and noon newscasts.
  • Stephanie Harris - Anchored weekend newscast after Kerri Furey until fall 2003. Currently anchors WAVY's weekend evening newscasts.
  • Derek Wing - Anchored weekend newscast after Stephanie Harris until 2004. Now at KCPQ in Seattle [6]

[edit] External links

Broadcast television in the Norfolk / Virginia Beach / Newport News, Virginia (Hampton Roads) market  (Nielsen DMA #42)

WUND 2 / WUNP 36 (PBS/UNC-TV) - WTKR 3 (CBS) - WGBS-LP 7 (A1) - WAVY 10 (NBC) - WVEC 13 (ABC) - WHRO 15 (PBS) - WYSJ-CA 19  (ShopNBC) - WHRE 21 (TBN) - W25CS 25 (Religious) - WGNT 27 (The CW) - WTVZ 33 (MNTV) - WVBT 43 (Fox) - WPXV 49 (ION) 
Local digital television channels

WSKY 4 (Ind)
Defunct television stations

WPEN-LP 68 (MTV2) 
Local cable and satellite television channels, and digital television subchannels

LNC5 - WAVY Weather Station 
Fox Network Affiliates in the state of Virginia

WHSV-DT 3.2 (Harrisonburg) - WAHU-CA 27 (Charlottesville) - WFXR 27 / WWCW 21 (Roanoke / Lynchburg) - WRLH 35 (Richmond) - WVBT 43 (Virginia Beach)
See also: ABC, CW, CBS, MyNetworkTV, NBC, PBS, and Other stations in Virginia
LIN TV Corporation
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Corporate Staff: Gary R. Chapman (President & CEO) | Vincent L. Sadusky | Greg Schmidt | Scott Blumenthal | Edward L. Munson, Jr. | William S. Banowsky | Peter S. Brodsky | Royal W. Carson, III | Dr. William H. Cunningham | Randall S. Fojtasek | Wilma H. Jordan | Michael A. Pausic

ABC Network Affiliates: WOTV | WTNH

CBS Network Affiliates: KRQE / KBIM / KREZ | WANE | WISH | WIVB | WLFI | WPRI | WTHI

Fox Network Affiliates: KASA | WALA | WLUK | WNAC4 | WUPW | WVBT

NBC Network Affiliates: KNSD1 | KXAN | KXAS1 | WAND3 | WAVY | WDTN | WOOD | WWLP

The CW Network Affiliates: KNIN2 | KNVA4 | KSCW2,7 | WBPG | WNLO | WWHO

My Network TV Affiliates: KNVA4 | WCTX | WNAC4 | WNDY | WXSP

Other stations: KBOP (Independent)1a | KBVO (TeleFutura) | WAPA / WTIN / WNJX (Independent)5 | WFXQ-CA6 | WIIH (Univision) | WJPX / WKPV / WIRS / WJWN (MTV)5

1Co-owned with NBC Universal in a joint venture (76% owned by NBC, 24% owned by LIN).
KNSD also includes a repeater used for rebroadcast of Entravision's KBNT-CA.

1aOwned by Commercial Broadcasting Corp., and operated by the NBC / LIN joint ventutre (see note 1)

2Co-owned with Banks Broadcasting in a joint venture (50/50); however, LIN does not control these stations.

3Co-owned with Block Communications in a joint venture (33% owned by LIN, 67% owned by Block Communications),
with management capabilities belonging to LIN.

4LIN operates these stations under a local marketing agreement.

5Acquisition by InterMedia Partners, LP is now awaiting FCC approval.

6Is currently a repeater for NBC affiliate WWLP. Future is uncertain at this time.

7Acquisition by Schurz Communications is now awaiting FCC approval.

Annual Revenue: $443.5 million USD | Employees: 2,414 (full time) | Stock Symbol: NYSE: TVL | Website: www.lintv.com
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