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WCAX-TV, channel 3, is a television station in Burlington, Vermont, USA. WCAX-TV is affiliated with the CBS Television Network and has been locally owned by the Hasbrook/Martin family and their company, Mount Mansfield Television, since the station's inception. WCAX-TV has studios on Joy Drive in South Burlington, and its transmitter is based on Mount Mansfield, Vermont's highest peak. Aside from its primary coverage area of the Champlain Valley and environs, WCAX-TV's over-the-air signal also carries across the U.S.-Canadian border into portions of southern Quebec. The station can be seen on cable in Montreal, as far north as Saguenay, and as far east as Gaspé. It is also available on every cable system in Vermont. ==History== WCAX was the call sign of a station, run by students, that made the first radio broadcast from the University of Vermont campus, October 10, 1924.〔()〕 Channel 3 first signed on-air on September 26, 1954 as WMVT, the first television station in the Green Mountain State. The station was owned by Charles P. Hasbrook, former publisher of the now-defunct ''Burlington Daily News'' along with WCAX radio (620 AM, now WVMT), which he purchased in 1939 and sold in 1963. In June 1955 the station's call letters were changed to WCAX-TV to match its radio sister. In 1958 Hasbrook turned over the station's ownership to his stepson, Dr. Stuart T. "Red" Martin Jr., who ran the station until his death in 2005. An engineer by trade, Red Martin assisted his stepfather in building the station from the ground-up, and upon channel 3's sign-on was installed as its first general manager. Peter R. Martin, Red Martin's oldest son, is the station's current president and general manager. Although WCAX radio was originally affiliated with NBC before moving to CBS in 1940, WCAX-TV has always been a CBS affiliate. As such, it is one of the few stations in the country (not counting network owned-and-operated stations) that has had the same owner, channel number, and primary network affiliation throughout its history. The station did hold a secondary Fox affiliation from 1994-1997, carrying Fox Sports and Fox Kids programming; through this arrangement, WCAX-TV was able to carry Fox's NFL coverage, which consisted of the rights to NFC games that had been held by CBS (and thus aired on WCAX-TV) until 1994. The secondary Fox affiliation ended when WFFF-TV signed on in 1997.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.vermontguides.com/nbmerge/nb97.htm )〕 On October 25, 2006, WCAX-TV upgraded its digital signal to broadcast CBS programming in high definition. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「WCAX-TV」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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