| 词条 | WSVI | ||||||||||
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| call_letters = WSVI | city = | station_logo = WSVI Logo.png | logo_size = 120px | station_slogan = The Virgin Islands' Very Own | station_branding = WSVI-TV Channel 8 (general) News Channel 8 (newscasts) | analog = | digital = 20 (UHF) | virtual = 8 (PSIP) | other_chs = WFIG-LD 8 (5 VHF) Charlotte Amalie | subchannels = | sister_stations = WZVI | affiliations = Ion Television (2016–present) | founded = | airdate = {{start date and age|1965|11|10|p=y}} | location = Christiansted, U.S. Virgin Islands | callsign_meaning = WSVI: United States Virgin Islands WFIG-LP: W-FIGgie Family (former owners) | former_callsigns = | former_channel_numbers = Analog: 8 (VHF, 1965–2009) | owner = Atlas News and Information Services Inc. | licensee = Alpha Broadcasting Corporation[1] | former_affiliations = ABC (1965–2015) | effective_radiated_power = 1.1 kW | HAAT = {{convert|290|m|ft|0|abbr=on}} | class = | facility_id = 2370 | coordinates = {{coord|17|45|13.7|N|64|47|54.5|W|type:landmark_scale:2000}} | licensing_authority = FCC | homepage = www.wsvi.tv }} WSVI, virtual channel 8 (UHF digital channel 20), is an Ion Television-affiliated television station serving the United States Virgin Islands that is licensed to Christiansted, Saint Croix. The station is owned by Atlas News and Information Services, as part of a duopoly with Charlotte Amalie-licensed independent station WZVI (channel 21). The two stations share studios at the Sunny Isle Shopping Center in Christiansted; WSVI's transmitter is located on Blue Mountain. WSVI operates a digital translator in Charlotte Amalie, WFIG-LD (VHF channel 5, also mapped to virtual channel 8 via PSIP), with transmitter atop Flag Hill. WSVI serves as the flagship station of the Virgin Islands Television Network. HistoryUntil December 31, 2015, WSVI was affiliated with ABC. During its ABC affiliation, WSVI signed off nightly at 2 a.m. AST (1 a.m. AST March to November), but the station now carries a 24-hour schedule. During non-network programming time, WSVI carried paid programming, Caribbean Lottery drawings, some local arts and events programming, and their weeknight-only local newscasts, as the U.S. Virgin Islands receives other broadcast networks and superstations from the mainland United States via cable and satellite. The need for WSVI to maintain a full broadcast schedule of syndicated programming outside of network hours for island residents and tourists was thus negated, since the aforementioned stations usually contain that syndicated programming in their schedules. As an Ion affiliate, this is less obvious, though some local programs continue to be carried in some timeslots, preempting Ion programming. The station has had multiple ownership changes. Antilles Broadcasting Corp. sold WSVI to Group III Inc. for $4 million.[2] In April 2011, WSVI's former owner, the Figgie Family Equity Fund, agreed to sell the station to Atlas News and Information Services of Las Vegas, Nevada, pending FCC approval.[3][4] WSVI told the Virgin Islands Daily News that it had declined to renew its contract with ABC at the beginning of 2016, although other local reports indicated ABC was threatening to remove its programming due to the station's low ratings and technical issues.[5][6] ABC then entered into an agreement with Lilly Broadcasting, which feeds CBS affiliate WSEE-TV in Erie, Pennsylvania to pay television vendors in the Caribbean with local weather inserts, to also provide its programming to the region, via WENY-TV in Elmira, New York. ABC also stated to the Daily News that its programming would be seen on WCVI-TV, which claimed not to have knowledge of any arrangement at the time.[5] WCVI-TV now broadcasts WENY-TV's ABC feed on its second digital subchannel. WSVI and WZVI's terrestrial signals have been off the air since Hurricane Maria struck the Virgin Islands on September 20, 2017. The Telecommunications Act of 1996 requires the stations' licenses be deleted after one year of continuous silence, although WSVI has applied for an extension through a hardship waiver granted by the FCC to Caribbean stations affected by Maria and Hurricane Irma.[7] Digital televisionDigital channel
Analog-to-digital conversionWSVI shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 8, on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 20.[9] Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former VHF analog channel 8. References1. ^https://stations.fcc.gov/station-profile/wsvi 2. ^{{cite journal |author= |title=Changing Hands |journal=Broadcasting: The Newsmagazine of the Fifth Estate |location= |publisher= |page=99 |date=November 17, 1986 }} 3. ^TV Newscheck: "Full-Power TV On St. Croix Goes For $350K", May 2, 2011 4. ^[https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101422123&formid=315&fac_num=2370 FCC Document: "APPLICATION FOR CONSENT TO TRANSFER CONTROL OF ENTITY HOLDING BROADCAST STATION CONSTRUCTION PERMIT OR LICENSE" for WSVI, dated April 28, 2011.] 5. ^1 {{cite news |last1=Carlson |first1=Suzanne |title=Where is ABC? 'Bachelor' fans want to know|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160109015756/http://virginislandsdailynews.com/news/where-is-abc-bachelor-fans-want-to-know-1.1991111 |work=Virgin Islands Daily News |date=January 9, 2016}} 6. ^{{cite news |last1=McCarthy |first1=John |title=David Lampel-Run WSVI-TV Channel Loses Its ABC Affiliation, Just In Time For The Bowl Game - Virgin Islands Free Press |url=http://vifreepress.com/2016/01/david-lampel-run-wsvi-tv-channel-loses-its-abc-affiliation-just-in-time-for-the-bowl-game/ |work=Virgin Islands Free Press |date=January 1, 2016}} 7. ^{{cite web |title=Request to Extend a Silent Authority of a DTV Station Application |url=https://enterpriseefiling.fcc.gov/dataentry/public/tv/draftCopy.html?displayType=html&appKey=25076f91654dadf3016590cea3dc5d7e&id=25076f91654dadf3016590cea3dc5d7e&goBack=N |website=FCC LMS}} 8. ^RabbitEars TV Query for WSVI 9. ^{{cite web|url=http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130829004251/http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf |dead-url=yes |archive-date=August 29, 2013 |title=DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds |format=PDF |date= |accessdate=March 24, 2012 }} External links
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