WHSV-TV
ABC/MyNetworkTV affiliate in Harrisonburg, Virginia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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WHSV-TV (channel 3) is a television station in Harrisonburg, Virginia, United States, affiliated with ABC. It is owned by Gray Television alongside two low-power stations: Class A dual Fox/CBS affiliate WSVF-CD (channel 43) and dual NBC/CW+ affiliate WSVW-LD (channel 30). The three stations share studios on North Main Street (US 11) in downtown Harrisonburg, and operate a newsroom in Fishersville, serving Staunton, Waynesboro, and Augusta County. WHSV-TV's transmitter is located at Elliott Knob west of Staunton.
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City | Harrisonburg, Virginia |
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Branding | WHSV (general) WHSV News (newscasts) WSVW 3 in the Valley (on DT2) MeTV on MyValley (on DT4) CBS The V (on DT5) |
Programming | |
Affiliations | 3.1: ABC 3.2: NBC 3.5: CBS for others, see § Subchannels |
Ownership | |
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WSVF-CD, WSVW-LD | |
History | |
First air date | October 19, 1953 (70 years ago) (1953-10-19)[1] |
Former call signs | WSVA-TV (1953–1976) |
Former channel number(s) | Analog: 3 (VHF, 1953–2009) Digital: 49 (UHF, 2006–2018) |
Analog/DT1: NBC (1953–1968) DuMont (1953–1956) CBS (secondary, 1953–1963) NBC (secondary, 1968–1975) Fox (secondary, 1994–1996) | |
Call sign meaning | Harrisonburg Shenandoah Valley |
Technical information[2] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
Facility ID | 4688 |
ERP | 271 kW |
HAAT | 666.1 m (2,185.4 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 38°9′55.8″N 79°18′44.9″W |
Translator(s) | 24 (UHF) Winchester 34 (UHF) Massanutten |
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Public license information | |
Website | www |
WHSV-TV operates two fill-in digital translators: one on UHF channel 34, licensed to Massanutten and covering Harrisonburg, and one on UHF channel 24 licensed to Winchester, which is located on Signal Knob near Strasburg and serves the Winchester−Front Royal area (in the Washington, D.C. television market). Its signal is also relayed in Moorefield, West Virginia on low-power translator W33EJ-D,[3] which is owned by Valley TV Cooperative, Inc.
As of December 1, 2019, WHSV is used to provide full-market over-the-air coverage of WSVW-LD (simulcast over WHSV-DT2) and WSVF-CD2 (simulcast over WHSV-DT5); however, only the WSVW-LD simulcast is aired in high definition.[4][5][6][7]