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WVEC, channel 13, is a television station licensed to Hampton, Virginia, USA, serving as the ABC affiliate for the Hampton Roads area (comprising the cities of Hampton, Norfolk, Portsmouth, Virginia Beach, and Newport News), and portions of the Outer Banks region of North Carolina. WVEC is owned by Tegna, Inc. (the former broadcast division of the Gannett Company), and has its studios located in Norfolk and transmitter based in the Driver neighborhood of Suffolk, Virginia. ==History== The station began operations on September 19, 1953, on UHF channel 15 as an NBC affiliate.〔(HISTORY OF WVEC | WVEC.com | News for Hampton Roads, Virginia )〕 It was co-owned originally by Hampton businessman Thomas P. Chisman and several other stockholders, along with WVEC radio (1490 AM, now WXTG; and 101.3 FM, now WWDE-FM). The station switched affiliations to ABC in 1959, when WAVY-TV (channel 10) took the NBC affiliation two years after signing on. During the late 1950s, WVEC-TV was also briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network.〔 〕 In those days, UHF stations were not as successful as VHF stations, and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) did not yet make requirements for television sets to have UHF tuners. So on November 13, 1959,〔(HISTORY OF WVEC | WVEC.com | News for Hampton Roads, Virginia )〕 WVEC-TV moved to its current location on VHF channel 13. Two years later, the channel 15 position would be occupied by current PBS affiliate WHRO-TV. In 1980, Chisman sold the station to Corinthian Broadcasting,〔(HISTORY OF WVEC | WVEC.com | News for Hampton Roads, Virginia )〕 a unit of Dun & Bradstreet. At the time of the sale, it was the last locally owned and operated "Big Three" station in Hampton Roads. Four years later, Dun sold Corinthian to Belo, which owned the ''Dallas Morning News'' and WFAA-TV in its home city. In 1997, WVEC (along with ''The Virginian-Pilot'' and Cox Communications) launched LNC4 (later LNC5), a 24-hour local cable news television channel, featuring repeats of WVEC newscasts and a live 10:00 pm newscast. 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'' is 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. Though not truly high definition, the digital widescreen broadcasts were rescanned and up-converted from standard definition to 1080i before transmission to match the ratio of HD television screens.〔(13News takes a wider look at life | TOP STORIES | WVEC.com | News for Hampton Roads, Virginia )〕 It remained the only major station in the Hampton Roads market to continue to air its newscasts in enhanced definition widescreen rather than true high definition until it upgraded to full HD in 2013. On June 13, 2013, the Gannett Company announced that it would acquire Belo. The sale was completed on December 23.〔(Gannett Completes Its Acquisition of Belo ), TVNewsCheck, Retrieved 23 December, 2013〕 WVEC began using Gannett's graphics and "This Is Home" package on July 24, 2014. Ironically, the conversion happened during storms and debuted in "Storm Mode."〔https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrOoE-CG3P0〕 In August 2014, Gannett announced it would split its broadcast and digital holdings into a new company, Tegna; the split became official on June 29, 2015. 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「WVEC」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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