WCVE-TV

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WCVE-TV
WCVE-TV WVPT VPM PBS logo.png
Channels
BrandingPBS VPM
Programming
Affiliations23.1: PBS
23.2: Create
23.3: World Channel
23.4: PBS Kids
23.5: WCVW simulcast
Ownership
Owner VPM Media Corporation
WCVW, WNVT, WNVC, WVPT, WVPY, WCVE-FM
History
First air date
September 10, 1964(58 years ago) (1964-09-10)
Former channel number(s)
Analog:
23 (UHF, 1964–2009)
Digital:
42 (UHF, until 2020)
NET (1964–1970)
Call sign meaning
Central Virginia Educational
Technical information
Licensing authority
 FCC
Facility ID 9987
ERP 310 kW
HAAT 327.3 m (1,073.8 ft)
Transmitter coordinates 37°30′45.6″N77°36′4.8″W / 37.512667°N 77.601333°W / 37.512667; -77.601333
Links
Public license information
Website vpm.org
WCVW
ATSC 3.0 station
  • Richmond, Virginia
  • United States
Channels
BrandingVPM Plus
Programming
Affiliations PBS
Ownership
OwnerVPM Media Corporation
WCVE-TV, WNVT, WHTJ WNVC WVPT, WVPY, WCVE-FM
History
First air date
December 24, 1966(56 years ago) (1966-12-24)
Former channel number(s)
Analog:
57 (UHF, 1966–2009)
Digital:
44 (UHF, until 2020)
NET (1966–1970)
Call sign meaning
Disambiguation of WCVE
Technical information
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID 9989
ERP 112 kW
HAAT 327.3 m (1,073.8 ft)
Transmitter coordinates 37°30′45.6″N77°36′4.8″W / 37.512667°N 77.601333°W / 37.512667; -77.601333
Links
Public license information
WHTJ
Satellite of WCVE-TV
Channels
BrandingPBS VPM
Programming
Affiliations41.1: PBS
41.2: WCVW simulcast
41.3: World Channel
41.4: PBS Kids
41.5: Create
Ownership
OwnerVPM Media Corporation
WCVE-TV, WCVW, WNVT, WNVC WVPT, WVPY, WCVE-FM
History
First air date
May 19, 1989(34 years ago) (1989-05-19)
Former channel number(s)
Analog:
41 (UHF, 1989–2009)
Digital:
46 (UHF, until 2020)
Call sign meaning
Home of Thomas Jefferson
Technical information
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID 9990
ERP 300 kW
HAAT 335 m (1,099 ft)
Transmitter coordinates 37°59′0″N78°29′1″W / 37.98333°N 78.48361°W / 37.98333; -78.48361 (WHTJ)
Links
Public license information

WCVE-TV (channel 23) is a PBS member television station in Richmond, Virginia, United States. Owned by the VPM Media Corporation (formerly known as the Commonwealth Public Broadcasting Corporation), the station maintains studios and a transmitter at 23 Sesame Street in Bon Air, a suburb of Richmond.

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WHTJ (channel 41) in Charlottesville operates as a full-time satellite of WCVE-TV; this station's transmitter is located atop Carters Mountain. WCVE-TV also operates a sister station in Richmond, WCVW (channel 57), whose transmitter is co-located with WCVE-TV.

The three stations were collectively branded as the Community Idea Stations from 2001 until 2019, when Commonwealth Public Broadcasting rebranded its stations as VPM (short for Virginia Public Media), with WCVE-TV and WHTJ becoming VPM PBS and WCVW becoming VPM Plus. [3]

History

The community-owned public broadcasting company was established in 1961 by Thomas Boushall (Chairman of the Richmond School Board and an officer of the Bank of Virginia) and a group of concerned citizens to employ television for educational purposes. The patron saints of public broadcasting in central Virginia were Boushall, E. Claiborne Robins Sr., Mary Ann Franklin, and Bill W. Spiller. Mrs. Franklin first approached Boushall and Henry I. Willett, then Superintendent of Richmond City Schools, with the idea of establishing an educational television station. Boushall and Franklin then recruited Spiller, who was hired in December 1963 and began working for them in January 1964.

WCVE-TV's sister station, WCVW-TV (channel 57) signed on in 1967. Richmond became the first community in Virginia to have dual stations, and only the eighth in the nation to do so, doubling the amount of instructional programming provided to schools in central Virginia. Over 40 years later, both WCVE-TV and WCVW are still in operation.

In 1974, Commonwealth Public Broadcasting took over WNVT-TV, a Fairfax public TV station on the verge of financial insolvency, in order to protect instructional television and educational services for schools in northern Virginia. In 1981, a second Northern Virginia station, WNVC-TV, was established. Today, these two stations provide international programming in English and several other languages tailored to the needs of the Washington, D.C. area's culturally diverse population.

In 1988, Union Theological Seminary & Presbyterian School of Christian Education announced plans to give up its public radio license for WRFK, which had assumed a fine music format from WFMV. To ensure public radio would remain in Richmond, WCVE-FM radio went on the air as a National Public Radio (NPR) member station. The following year, the company established WHTJ in Charlottesville. Before WHTJ's sign-on, Charlottesville had no full-powered PBS station; only a repeater of Harrisonburg's WVPT served the area.

A 25,000-square-foot (2,323 m2) TV and radio studio-office complex was added in 1991.

After signing off at midnight almost daily for over 40 years, WCVE-TV and WCVW became 24-hour stations most days of the week in the fall of 2006. Starting in early 2008, the stylized "i" logo became the station's secondary logo, and the stations adopted a family of similar primary logos displaying their call letters.

Technical Information

Subchannels

The stations' digital signals are multiplexed:

WCVE-TV

Subchannels of WCVE-TV [4] [5] [6] [7]
Channel Res. Aspect Short nameProgramming
23.1 1080i 16:9 VPMMain WCVE-TV programming / PBS
23.2 480i Create Create
23.3World World Channel (WNVT)
23.4Kids PBS Kids
23.5 720p VPMPlusMain WCVW programming / PBS (WCVW)
  Broadcast on behalf of another station

WCVW ATSC 3.0 lighthouse

WCVW's digital signal is multiplexed:

Subchannels of WCVW-TV (ATSC 3.0) [5]
Channel Res. Aspect Short nameProgramming
57.1 720p 16:9 WCVW-HDMain WCVW programming / PBS

WHTJ

Subchannels of WHTJ [6] [7]
Channel Res. Aspect Short nameProgramming
41.1 1080i 16:9 VPMMain WHTJ programming / PBS
41.2 720p VPMplusSimulcast of WCVW
41.3 480i World World Channel (WNVC)
41.4Kids PBS Kids
41.5Create Create

Analog-to-digital conversion

WCVE-TV, WCVW and WHTJ shut down their analog signals on March 30, 2009: [8]

On April 7, 2022, WCVE-TV began hosting WCVW's 57.1 main channel, as a result of WCVW converting to the ATSC 3.0 broadcast format. WCVE-TV uses its virtual channel number 23 instead of WCVW's virtual channel number 57. [9]

Programming

Like most public television stations, this trio broadcasts shows distributed by PBS and American Public Television, but they also create a range of local programs. WCVE-TV produces Virginia Currents, a program profiling residents of the state, both typical and notable, which is aired by other PBS stations in Virginia such as Blue Ridge PBS and WVPT. WHTJ offers Charlottesville Inside-Out, hosted by musician Terri Allard. [10] All of the programs are produced by WCVE-TV's studios in Richmond.

National shows presented by WCVE-TV include Legacy List with Matt Paxton. [11]

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References

  1. ↑ WNVT channel sharing application ENG 02-15-2018
  2. ↑ WNVC channel sharing application ENG 02-15-2018
  3. ↑ Curran, Colleen. "Community Idea Stations changing its name to VPM". Richmond Times-Dispatch. Retrieved 2019-07-31.
  4. ↑ RabbitEars TV Query for WCVE
  5. 1 2 RabbitEars TV Query for WCVW
  6. 1 2 RabbitEars TV Query for WHTJ
  7. 1 2 "VPM TV Schedule | VPM".
  8. ↑ "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-03-24.
  9. ↑ "Licensing and Management System".
  10. ↑ Hook staff (2007-11-15). "'Inside-Out' fest: WHTJ celebrates local talk with Terri". The Hook . Charlottesville. Retrieved 2008-02-25.
  11. ↑ "Legacy List with Matt Paxton" . Retrieved 2020-08-01.

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