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WVBT
Virginia Beach, Virginia
Branding	FOX43
Slogan	First on FOX
Channels	Analog: 43 (UHF) Digital: 29 (UHF)
Translators	WNLO-CA 45 (Digital), Norfolk
Affiliations	Fox
Owner	LIN TV
Founded	1993
Call letters meaning	Virginia Beach Television
Former affiliations	The WB (1995–1998)
Website	MyFoxHamptonRoads.com

WVBT is the Fox Broadcasting Company affiliate serving the Norfolk-Portsmouth-Newport News, VA television market (Designated Market Area). The station is licensed to Virginia Beach. WVBT's transmitter is located in Suffolk, Virginia. WVBT broadcasts its analog signal on Channel 43, and is sister station to WAVY-TV.

Contents 1 History 2 FOX 43 News at Ten 2.1 Personalities 2.1.1 Anchors 2.1.2 Meteorologists 2.1.3 Sports 2.1.4 Former Personalities 3 External links

WVBT began operation in March 1993 with Home Shopping Network programming, along with infomercials and religious shows. It affiliated with the WB network in January 1995, and shortly thereafter came under a local marketing agreement with LIN's WAVY-TV Channel 10.

LIN came to an affiliation agreement with Fox in November 1995, ^{[1] [2]} and WVBT became a Fox affiliate in August 1998, sending the WB affiliation to WTVZ. LIN purchased the station out-right in February 2002.

On May 18, 2007, LIN TV announced that it was exploring strategic alternatives that could result in the sale of the company.[3]

When WVBT made the switch to FOX in 1998, WAVY started producing a 10 p.m. newscast: FOX 43 News at Ten. The newscast is not the market's first primetime newscast, WTKR produced a short-lived newscast on WGNT from 1995 until 1997; and WVEC produced a newscast on WPEN-LP from 1995 until they started LNC4 (now LNC5) in 1997, where WVEC continues to produce a 10 p.m. newscast to this day.

The 45-minute newscast is broadcast by WAVY anchors, reporters, and meteorologists. It is followed by the FOX 43 SportsWrap, with sports news and highlights.

• Nicole Livas - Weeknights
• Lori Crouch - Weekends

• Don Slater - Weeknights
• Cheryl Nelson - Weekends

• Bruce Rader - Weeknights
• Ahmed Fareed - Weekends

• Kerri Furey - anchored weekend newscast. Still at WAVY/WVBT, co-anchors sister station WAVY's morning and noon newscasts.
• Stephanie Harris - anchored weekend newscast after Kerri Furey until fall 2003. Currently anchors WAVY's weekend evening newscasts.
• Krista Marino - anchored weeknight newscast from its inception until 2001. Married to former WAVY reporter Ted Oberg ^{[4] [5]}. Now a stay-at-home mom in Houston.
• David Nelson - weeknight co-anchor from 2003 until 2007.
• Derek Wing - anchored weekend newscast after Stephanie Harris until leaving for KCPQ in Seattle in 2004.
• Kelly Wright - anchored weeknight newscast from its inception until 2002. Now at FOX News Channel ^[6]

• WVBT FOX 43 Homepage
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WVBT

v • d • e Broadcast television in the Norfolk / Virginia Beach / Newport News, Virginia (Hampton Roads) market  (Nielsen DMA #42)

WUND 2 / WUNP 36 (PBS/UNC-TV) - WTKR 3 (CBS) - WGBS-LP 7 (Ind) - WAVY 10 (NBC) - WVEC 13 (ABC) - WHRO 15 (PBS) - WYSJ-CA 19  (ShopNBC) - WHRE 21 (TBN) - W25CS 25 (Religious) - WGNT 27 (The CW) - WTVZ 33 (MNTV) - WVBT 43 (Fox) - WPXV 49 (ION)  Local digital television channels WSKY 4 (Ind) Defunct television stations WPEN-LP 68 (MTV2)  Local cable and satellite television channels, and digital television subchannels LNC5 - WAVY Weather Station

v • d • e Fox Network Affiliates in the state of Virginia
WHSV-DT 3.2 (Harrisonburg) - WAHU-CA 27 (Charlottesville) - WFXR 27 / WWCW 21 (Roanoke / Lynchburg) - WRLH 35 (Richmond) - WVBT 43 (Virginia Beach)
See also: ABC, CW, CBS, MyNetworkTV, NBC, PBS, and Other stations in Virginia

v • d • e LIN TV Corporation
Corporate Staff: Gary R. Chapman (President & CEO) · Vincent L. Sadusky · Greg Schmidt · Scott Blumenthal · Edward L. Munson, Jr. · William S. Banowsky · Peter S. Brodsky · Royal W. Carson, III · Dr. William H. Cunningham · Randall S. Fojtasek · Wilma H. Jordan · Michael A. Pausic ABC Network Affiliates: WOTV · WTNH CBS Network Affiliates: KRQE / KBIM / KREZ · WANE · WISH · WIVB · WLFI · WPRI · WTHI Fox Network Affiliates: KASA · WALA · WLUK · WNAC3 · WUPW · WVBT NBC Network Affiliates: KNSD1 · KXAN · KXAS1 · WAVY · WDTN · WOOD · WWLP The CW Network Affiliates: KNIN2 · KNVA3 · WBPG · WNLO · WWHO My Network TV Affiliates: KNVA3 · WCTX · WNAC3 · WNDY · WXSP Other stations: KBOP (Independent)1a · KBVO (TeleFutura) · WFXQ-CA4 · WIIH (Univision) 1Co-owned with NBC Universal in a joint venture (76% owned by NBC, 24% owned by LIN). KNSD also includes a repeater used for rebroadcast of Entravision's KBNT-CA. 1aOwned by Commercial Broadcasting Corp., and operated by the NBC / LIN joint ventutre (see note 1) 2Co-owned with Banks Broadcasting in a joint venture (50/50); however, LIN does not control the station. 3LIN operates these stations under a local marketing agreement. 4Is currently a repeater for NBC affiliate WWLP. Future is uncertain at this time.
Annual Revenue: $443.5 million USD · Employees: 2,414 (full time) · Stock Symbol: NYSE: TVL · Website: www.lintv.com