67-516: TVX may refer to: TVX Broadcast Group , a defunct American media company Television X , a series of adult television channels in the UK TVX , a Salvadoran broadcasting through Channel 23. Thermal expansion valve Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title TVX . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
134-582: A microwave transmission system from Richmond , which was on the coaxial cable network for the broadcast of network TV shows. A mobile unit for televising programs outside the studio arrived in Norfolk in December, while the station began broadcasting a test pattern daily on March 1, 1950. WTAR-TV formally began broadcasting on April 2, 1950, as the first television station in southeastern Virginia, broadcasting to 600 area TV sets. That evening, 1,800 people filled
201-882: A Black employee of the company, and the Hispanic-owned East Los Angeles Community Union in order to qualify as a minority licensee under FCC distress sale rules. TVX eventually backed out of the deal when the FCC began investigating the East Los Angeles Community Union for criminal misuse of funds; TVX investor Gene Loving told the Richmond Times-Dispatch that "[w]e made the decision we couldn't be in business with them". In November 1986, TVX agreed to pay $ 240 million to acquire five major-market independent stations from Taft Broadcasting . The stations were all in markets larger than
268-616: A Norfolk law firm—Gordon E. Campbell, Wayne Lustig, and I. L. Hancock—formed the Hampton Roads Television Corporation and proceeded to file a competing application for a license to broadcast on channel 3. The Hampton Roads Television application came at a time when incumbent broadcasters in other markets were facing competing "strike" applications for their channels. In January 1970, the FCC designated WTAR-TV's renewal and Hampton Roads Television's application for comparative hearing . Hampton Roads Television also challenged
335-522: A North Carolina woman "Miss WTAR-TV"; the Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch called the new tower the tallest maypole in the world. The end of the freeze also unblocked the development of other TV stations in Hampton Roads. By October 1952, there were eight applications on file with the FCC for four channels, both VHF and UHF, in Norfolk, Portsmouth , and Newport News . With station construction in
402-562: A TV station than ten years prior and that their law practice had expanded. Landmark initially reached an agreement with Scripps-Howard Broadcasting in April 1980 to swap WTAR-TV for WMC-TV in Memphis, Tennessee . Like Landmark in Norfolk, Scripps-Howard was looking to reduce its cross-ownership load in Memphis, where it owned AM and FM radio stations and the city's two daily newspapers. Two months later,
469-414: A former anchor for Headline News , joined the station in 1999 and then left in April 2001. In 2008, new general manager Jeff Hoffman fired the news director and associate news director. He stated in a press release that his goal was to "Take Norfolk Back!", citing that his station had once been the news leader in Hampton Roads. WTKR started the area's first 4 p.m. newscast on September 8, 2009, replacing
536-467: A general-entertainment mix including movies, sitcoms, cartoons, and sports, designed to provide an alternative to the existing stations in the Norfolk area. The new station quickly made an impact in the market, claiming nine percent total-day share within a year of going on the air and buoyed by the market's large young male population. Where the general manager of a local network affiliate had once declared to Trinder, "We will bury you", sitcom reruns helped
603-444: A group of Norfolk lawyers challenged the license of WTAR-TV in a decade-long dispute that involved several issues, including business dealings of the co-owned Norfolk newspapers and cross-ownership of newspapers and TV stations. The dispute ended in 1979 with a commitment by Landmark to sell the television station by 1981. Knight-Ridder acquired the station that year and changed the call letters to WTKR. During Knight-Ridder's ownership,
670-534: A group of mostly UHF television stations during the 1980s and early 1990s. TVX was established by local investors as the Television Corporation of Virginia, which built WTVZ-TV in Norfolk, Virginia , in 1979. The group soon became Television Corporation Stations—though abbreviated TVX—and adopted its final name in 1984. TVX built or acquired additional independent stations in mid-sized markets, primarily in
737-759: A holding company operated by private equity firm Oak Hill Capital Partners , for $ 530 million; the sale was finalized on May 7. Local TV LLC shared broadcast group management with the Tribune Company , by way of The Other Company, run by Tribune executive Randy Michaels . During this time, in 2010, Local TV LLC acquired WGNT (channel 27), the local affiliate of The CW , from the CBS Television Stations group. The station also increased its share of Hampton Roads-market TV advertising revenue by five percentage points from 2008 to 2012. On July 1, 2013, Local TV announced that its 19 stations would be acquired by
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#1732887297033804-515: A network in 1955, while a full-time ABC affiliate debuted when WAVY-TV signed on channel 10 in 1957. In 1967, Norfolk-Portsmouth Newspapers—which owned the two Norfolk daily newspapers, the WTAR stations, and WFMY-TV in Greensboro, North Carolina , among other holdings—was reorganized as Landmark Communications . In 1969, WTAR-TV's broadcast license came up for renewal at the FCC. Three members of
871-572: A new FCC policy on comparative hearings which resulted in an appeals court ruling and a redesignation of the WTAR-TV license challenge hearing. In 1973, FCC administrative law judge David Kraushaar recommended that the commission renew WTAR-TV's license. However, on appeal, the FCC Broadcast Bureau asked for reconsideration, citing lawsuits against Landmark and related companies in Virginia concerning
938-525: A new set and faster format. The station's ratings at 6 fell from first to third place. After the New York Times Company purchased the station in 1995, it made major changes to its lineup of anchors. It also launched weekend morning newscasts and partnered with WGNT to launch a 10 p.m. newscast on that station—the first in the market. WGNT owner Paramount Stations Group canceled the newscast in December 1997, with its new general manager noting that
1005-704: A sale. CBS then purchased WCIX from TVX for $ 59 million; the station became the CBS affiliate in Miami on January 1, 1989, and CBS closed on the purchase two days later. Despite the successful recapitalization, Salomon Brothers reached an agreement in principle in January 1989 for Paramount Pictures to acquire options to purchase the investment firm's majority stake. This deal was replaced in September with an outright purchase of 79 percent of TVX for $ 110 million. Another four percent stake
1072-467: A settlement with three other companies pursuing the channel in 1983; under the deal, the other three groups would combine to own the station , and TVX would serve as a consultant. The company also was the driving force behind a proposed distress purchase of WHCT in Hartford, Connecticut , in 1981; the troubled station was being sold by its licensee at a discount, and TVX joined forces with Herman Valentine,
1139-574: A small Christian television station in Winston-Salem, North Carolina , and rebuilt it as WJTM-TV (representing John Trinder and Tim McDonald in its call letters). Television Corporation of Virginia then also purchased the construction permit for a new independent station in Richmond, Virginia , and put WRLH-TV on the air in February 1982. A year after starting up, it already accounted for eight percent of
1206-467: A surge in revenues from $ 2 million in 1980 to $ 14 million in 1985, TVX remained an unprofitable company because of increasing programming costs and leveraged acquisitions. To clear the company's bank debt, TVX sold WRLH-TV in 1985 to A. S. Abell Company, then-publisher of the Baltimore Sun , then went public as an over-the-counter stock raising $ 19.8 million from the sale of two million shares. The cash
1273-646: Is a television station licensed to Norfolk, Virginia , United States, serving the Hampton Roads area as an affiliate of CBS . It is owned by the E. W. Scripps Company alongside Portsmouth -licensed WGNT (channel 27), an independent station . The two stations share studios on Boush Street near downtown Norfolk; WTKR's transmitter is located in Suffolk, Virginia . The station was founded as WTAR-TV by radio station WTAR and began broadcasting on April 2, 1950; it aired on channel 4 until it moved to channel 3 in 1954. It
1340-678: The Black Monday stock market crash. TVX then recapitalized over the course of 1988 and 1989 by selling stations in many of its medium and small markets. In 1988, TVX sold its stations in Pine Bluff/Little Rock and Nashville; 1989 saw the sale of the company's holdings in Memphis, New Orleans, and Norfolk. Additionally, McDonald left TVX in May 1988 after five years and was replaced by Trinder as president. TVX sold another station under very different circumstances. Miami's WCIX had become, from
1407-455: The Center Theater for the station's inaugural program. Nineteen local programs, ranging from children's shows to an all-Black variety show, were among channel 4's first local productions. In addition to NBC, the station also aired programs from the other three television networks of the day: CBS, ABC , and DuMont , channel 4 joining the latter a month and a half after it started. WTAR-TV
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#17328872970331474-400: The Tribune Company acquired Local TV LLC in 2013, the license was transferred to another company, Dreamcatcher Broadcasting, to satisfy cross-ownership concerns; however, Tribune continued providing services to the station. Scripps purchased WTKR and WGNT in 2019 as part of divestitures from Tribune's sale to Nexstar Media Group . The WTKR newsroom produces 46 hours a week of news programs for
1541-591: The Tribune Company , the owner of the Daily Press in Newport News, for $ 2.75 billion; Since this would conflict with FCC regulations that prohibit newspaper-television cross-ownership within a single market, Tribune spun off WTKR and WGNT, as well as WNEP-TV in Scranton, Pennsylvania , to Dreamcatcher Broadcasting, an unrelated company owned by former Tribune Company executive Ed Wilson . Tribune provided services to
1608-533: The federally mandated from analog to digital television ; the station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 40, using virtual channel 3. WTKR relocated its signal from channel 40 to channel 16 on July 2, 2020, as a result of the 2016 United States wireless spectrum auction . On the Eastern Shore of Virginia , Accomack County owns two translators, W18EG-D and W25AA-D (licensed to Onancock and broadcast from Mappsville ), that provide
1675-455: The Miami station to CBS for 10 days after being announced. However, CBS ultimately walked away because it feared that the Miami station, whose signal had technical deficiencies in several populated areas of the market, would bring down network ratings. In January 1987, NBC instead acquired WTVJ. When the owner of the outgoing NBC affiliate in Miami, WSVN , reached an impasse in negotiations with CBS, CBS and Salomon Brothers began discussing
1742-531: The Television Corporation of Virginia was formed in response to what its backers perceived as the need for another television station in the Norfolk area. Armed with an agreement to share the tower of public television station WHRO-TV , the group applied to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and received a construction permit for WTVZ-TV in June 1978. Two FCC commissioners dissented from
1809-606: The addition of ultra high frequency (UHF) channels to the existing 12 in the very high frequency (VHF) band and new station spacing requirements. In doing so, it made a total of 30 changes to the channels of existing stations, including WTAR-TV, which would be moved from channel 4 to channel 3. WTAR-TV was successful in rebuffing the originally proposed relocation to channel 8 or 12, both high-band VHF channels that would have required additional changes in transmitter equipment; instead, it received channel 3, which had originally been allocated to Richmond . However, WTAR-TV would not make
1876-745: The air in 1983 by a group that was losing money; TVX renegotiated programming contracts and cut such niceties as covered parking for station executives. The eight TVX stations owned at this time all became charter affiliates of the Fox network, which initially only provided late night and weekend prime time programming, in October 1986. Many of TVX's independents led their markets, though some faced much stiffer competition, most notably New Orleans and Nashville. Two additional attempts at expansion were unsuccessful. TVX filed for channel 42 in Austin, Texas , but wound up accepting
1943-458: The alleged publication of false information about a failing savings and loan whose director was one of Landmark's officers. It believed this issue called the company's character into question. In August 1974, the FCC remanded the case to the administrative law judge after Hampton Roads Television claimed that Landmark intentionally waited to make a change in senior management until after the initial decision. Kraushaar ruled in January 1975, finding
2010-521: The award because some of the investors in TVX—including Martha Davis, wife of future Virginia lieutenant governor Dick Davis —had holdings in Norfolk AM and FM radio stations; Television Corporation successfully argued that the addition of a new UHF station, first minority ownership of a local TV station, and integration of ownership and management outweighed these concerns. It also pointed to
2077-499: The call sign to WTKR. By 1988, Knight-Ridder owned eight stations. That October, the company announced its intent to sell its station group to help reduce a $ 929 million debt load and finance a $ 353 million acquisition of online information provider Dialog Information Services . Narragansett Television acquired WTKR and WPRI-TV in Providence, Rhode Island , from Knight-Ridder in 1989 for $ 150 million. Narragansett put
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2144-423: The channel switch for more than two years, as it paired the channel change with the installation of a new, 1,049 feet (320 m) tower and maximum-power transmitter facility near Driver . The new tower was touted as the highest man-made structure in Virginia. Delays resulting from weather pushed back the channel switch to May 1, 1954. On that day, the station held a beauty pageant at the transmitter site, crowning
2211-438: The company committed to sell WTAR-TV within two years, retaining ownership of the Norfolk newspapers and radio stations. In announcing the agreement, Landmark chairman Frank Batten cited FCC policy encouraging the unwinding of situations where newspapers and TV stations in the same market were co-owned as well as the drain of continued litigation in the license challenge; Lustig and Campbell noted they had less interest in running
2278-554: The company had no experience. Most of them, with the exception of WTAF, were doing rather poorly. The addition of five more stations to the portfolio also left TVX needing to divest itself of one station. It chose the still-unbuilt WNYB-TV in Buffalo, New York . After a deal to sell the station to Malcolm Glazer fell through, the company successfully approached the owners of the Buffalo Sabres hockey team, who were approved and put
2345-516: The conditional grant to a regular grant on October 7; days before, the commission imposed a freeze on new TV station grants to sort out possible changes to television broadcast standards. As construction proceeded on the Boush Street facility, in July 1949, work began on the transmitter tower at the site. WTAR-TV also secured a primary affiliation with NBC ; network programming would arrive in Norfolk via
2412-413: The deal fell apart for economic reasons; Landmark, which was required to dispose of WTAR-TV by March 1, 1981, put the station on the market. In August 1980, Landmark entered into an agreement with Knight-Ridder to purchase the station for $ 48.3 million, which was higher than what Landmark was reportedly seeking for the stations. Knight-Ridder took over control of channel 3 on March 3, 1981, and changed
2479-660: The existing TVX portfolio: WTAF-TV in Philadelphia (renamed WTXF-TV in 1988); KTXA in Fort Worth, Texas ; KTXH in Houston ; WDCA-TV in Washington, D.C. ; and WCIX in Miami . TVX officially closed on the deal on April 9, 1987. The larger-market independents presented a puzzle for TVX's business model. Two of them—WTAF and WCIX—produced local 10 p.m. newscasts, something with which
2546-514: The fact that other attempts at commercial UHF television in Hampton Roads had failed economically. The investors, including market broadcast veteran Gene Loving, secured the services of John A. Trinder, general sales manager at CBS affiliate WTAR-TV , and Tim McDonald, who had last been programming Washington independent WTTG , to help run the new WTVZ. McDonald required six months of coaxing to be lured away from Washington. He only agreed to join WTVZ in
2613-428: The highest pay for news department employees, leading Mike Smith of its newspaper sister, The Virginian-Pilot , to call it the "news Goliath" of Hampton Roads. Though it also had the most conservative presentation style in the market, it had led every ratings period since records had been kept due to being ingrained in the viewing habits of longtime residents. The other stations generally attracted viewers who had moved to
2680-429: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=TVX&oldid=1058327652 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages TVX Broadcast Group TVX Broadcast Group was an American media company that owned
2747-404: The management change had no effect on his comparative selection of WTAR-TV over Hampton Roads Television. However, the commission reopened the comparative hearing and added a character issue against Landmark. In 1979, Landmark reached an agreement with Hampton Roads Television. It reimbursed the challengers for their expenses in exchange for them dropping the ten-year-old challenge. Additionally,
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2814-447: The moment Taft put it on the market in 1986, a major player in a brewing affiliation drama in the Miami area . CBS, which was seeking to buy stations, inquired as to purchasing the station and leaving longtime affiliate WTVJ ; that caused a buyer for WTVJ, also on the market, to withdraw from the deal. CBS continued to negotiate with Taft, and the original purchase agreement between Taft and TVX allowed Taft to continue negotiating to sell
2881-494: The only one in the market at that time, made its debut on WGNT. In 2016, the station added a daily lifestyle program, Coast Live . By 2023, the station produced 36 hours a week of newscasts plus 10 hours a week of dedicated weekday newscasts (at 7 a.m., 7 p.m., and 10 p.m.) for WGNT. The station's signal is multiplexed : WTKR began digital broadcasts on channel 40 on March 11, 2002. The station discontinued regular programming on its analog signal on June 12, 2009, as part of
2948-601: The pipeline, the WTAR Radio Corporation opted to change its radio and TV stations to primary CBS affiliates beginning in September 1953. NBC signed with a new-to-air station in Hampton , WVEC-TV (then channel 15), the next month. ABC did likewise in September and affiliated with the new WTOV-TV (channel 27) in Portsmouth. However, ABC and DuMont continued to also be affiliated with WTAR-TV. DuMont ceased its existence as
3015-563: The play-by-play voice of the Detroit Tigers beginning in 1992. The Hampton Roads news ratings became a "horse race"; in the Nielsen survey for November 1993, WTKR led at noon, 5, and 6 p.m. and was a close second at 11. A major reimaging effort in 1994, however, derailed the station's news ratings, which were already starting to fall. Under news director Barbara L. Hamm, the station rebranded from Eyewitness News to TV3 News and introduced
3082-456: The purchase just as the independent station market soured and investors shied away from its junk bonds . The firm struggled to recapitalize and soon was shedding most of the stations it had built in medium markets. Gulf and Western Industries , the corporate parent of Paramount Pictures , acquired 79 percent of the company from Salomon Brothers in 1989. TVX became wholly owned by Paramount in 1991 and became Paramount Stations Group . In 1976,
3149-439: The ratings slide. The station continued to find itself in second place for its early and late evening news programs in the late 1980s. Ratings recovered somewhat in the first half of the 1990s. Several new talent hires, including longtime market meteorologist Dr. Duane Harding and sportscaster Bob Rathbun , were part of the formula that lifted WTKR to its first 6 p.m. win in six years in 1990. Rathbun departed after being named
3216-530: The region from elsewhere. As late as 1980, channel 3 held an 18-percentage point lead over WVEC at 6 p.m. However, in the early 1980s, immediately after the sale to Knight-Ridder, WTKR's ratings declined, leading to a more competitive ratings race among all three major stations for news coverage. By 1985, WTKR was in second place in the time slot behind either WAVY or WVEC, depending on the ratings survey. Management responded to declining ratings by firing some talent and shuffling around others, which only exacerbated
3283-416: The smaller Norfolk market because he was made president and general manager and the investors were willing to expand beyond one station. The station aimed to offer counterprogramming to the existing network affiliates, reach the children's market (which Trinder and McDonald felt underserved), and provide facilities for local commercial production. WTVZ-TV began broadcasting on September 24, 1979, featuring
3350-438: The southern United States, between 1980 and 1987; it became known for its cost-conscious and cookie-cutter philosophy toward station management, particularly its standard station employment plan with exactly 37 employees. While TVX always envisioned entering larger markets, the acquisition of five major-market independent stations from Taft Broadcasting in 1986 proved to be its eventual downfall. TVX incurred substantial debt in
3417-401: The start of its history. The original newscast, Telenews , aired for 15 minutes a day, five days a week; it provided local news coverage including photography from the co-owned Norfolk newspapers. The station spent decades dominating local news ratings in Hampton Roads. In 1974, it drew more news viewers than WAVY and WVEC combined; it had the largest news staff of the three stations in town and
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#17328872970333484-471: The station announced it would build a new radio and television complex to house its radio operations and the new channel 4. The station divulged more details of the project the next month, to commemorate the 25th anniversary of WTAR radio: it would be a three-story facility encompassing a television studio, a theater with seating for 175, and a 400 feet (120 m) transmitter tower for the TV station. The FCC upgraded
3551-399: The station on the air in September 1987. TVX took on debt to make the purchase. TVX's bankers, Salomon Brothers , provided the financing for the acquisition and in return held more than 60 percent of the company. The company was to pay Salomon Brothers $ 200 million on January 1, 1988, and missed the first payment deadline, having been unable to lure investors to its junk bonds even before
3618-413: The station rise to number two in the valuable early fringe hours opposite the network affiliates. It took just seven months for WTVZ to turn a profit, quickly leaving behind the early days when, Trinder recalled, "we made payroll by going to the bank and trading auto titles for cash". The Television Corporation investors wasted little time branching out into new markets. In 1980, they purchased WGNN-TV,
3685-459: The station was "in the business of entertainment programming" and "not moving in the direction of news". In the late 1990s and early 2000s, WTKR remained in third place in local news coverage while experiencing significant and sustained turnover in on-air talent, including a run from 1995 to January 1998 in which 20 on-air staffers departed; some were dismissed by management, while others left citing low morale and fear for their jobs. Lyn Vaughn ,
3752-503: The station's news ratings declined; though they recovered for some time under Narragansett Television in the late 1980s and early 1990s, they fell again during the 12-year ownership tenure of The New York Times Company . Local TV LLC acquired The New York Times Company's television stations, including WTKR, in 2007. The general manager launched a push to "Take Norfolk Back"; Local TV acquired WGNT in 2010, and WTKR increased its share of market advertising revenue and its news ratings. When
3819-569: The stations through a shared services agreement and held an option to buy back WTKR and WGNT outright in the future. The sale was completed on December 27. Dreamcatcher continued to own the stations even though Tribune completed a split of its broadcasting and publishing businesses into separate companies in 2014. Sinclair Broadcast Group , owner of MyNetworkTV affiliate WTVZ-TV (channel 33), entered into an agreement to acquire Tribune Media in 2017. Sinclair would have had to select one of WGNT or WTVZ-TV to keep alongside WTKR; no divestiture plan
3886-759: The total TV audience in Richmond. TVX continued to add one new station a year, building WMKW-TV in Memphis in 1983 and WCAY-TV in Nashville in 1984. In expanding, TVX sought situations where novice broadcasters had gotten in over their heads and wanted to sell in Sun Belt cities predicted to have growing markets. Each new station put on the air was modeled after WTVZ, where bookshelves had been scrounged up at pawn shops and other furnishings were obtained in trade-out deals for advertising. Each station had 37 employees—McDonald told Channels magazine in 1986 that "we've found over
3953-519: The two stations on the market in late 1994; the company had not intended to sell but began taking offers after receiving several unsolicited expressions of interest, with company chairman Jonathan Nelson citing his firm's "fiduciary responsibility" to its stakeholders. The New York Times Company acquired the station in 1995, with WTKR becoming the company's largest-market television property. On January 4, 2007, The New York Times Company sold WTKR and its eight sister television stations to Local TV LLC ,
4020-485: The two stations. On April 21, 1948, the WTAR Radio Corporation—owner of WTAR (790 AM) and associated with Norfolk's two daily newspapers, The Virginian-Pilot and the Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch —applied to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for a construction permit to build a new television station on channel 4 in Norfolk. The FCC made a conditional grant to WTAR on August 18, 1948; that day,
4087-408: The weekend morning newscasts. This was the station's second attempt at a newscast during the 4 p.m. hour, as WTKR had aired a short-lived 4:30 p.m. newscast in 1995. After Local TV acquired WGNT, WTKR began introducing newscasts on that station. On August 25, 2011, a two-hour extension of WTKR's weekday morning newscast began airing from 7 to 9 a.m. On July 7, 2014, a half-hour 7 p.m. newscast,
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#17328872970334154-401: The years that that's how many we need"—and generally aired a similar mix of programming, with little local programming and more sports than the average independent. This strategy earned TVX derisive nicknames in a business known for a glamorous image: a 1986 feature article on the company was titled "McStations", and it was also dubbed the " Kmart of broadcasting". Despite this activity and
4221-544: Was acquired from Citicorp the next year. In 1991, Paramount acquired the remainder of TVX, forming the Paramount Stations Group . TVX and the Grant Broadcasting System were cited by Television Engineering editor Peter Caranicas and Variety writer John Lippman as among the highest-profile economic failures in late 1980s independent television. Notes: WTAR-TV WTKR (channel 3)
4288-452: Was announced. However, the transaction was designated in July 2018 for hearing by an FCC administrative law judge , and Tribune moved to terminate the deal in August 2018. In 2019, Nexstar Media Group , owner of WAVY-TV and WVBT, announced it would acquire Tribune. Nexstar opted to retain its existing stations and sold WTKR–WGNT to the E. W. Scripps Company . WTAR-TV began airing news at
4355-447: Was the first station to use the Boush Street facility; WTAR radio moved in June 1950, and the building was not dedicated until September. By the station's first anniversary in April 1951, WTAR-TV was airing 30 local shows, representing ten hours of output a week, and more than half the top TV shows in the country. In April 1952, the FCC lifted the freeze after three and a half years with major changes to television allocations, including
4422-437: Was the only television station in Hampton Roads for its first three years, having been one of the last new station permits awarded before a years-long freeze on station grants by the Federal Communications Commission , and dominated local news ratings for more than 30 years. The station's ownership, which also included The Virginian-Pilot and Ledger-Star newspapers, reorganized as Landmark Communications in 1967. In 1969,
4489-772: Was used on a buying spree of stations: two in operation ( WNOL-TV in New Orleans and WLFL in Raleigh, North Carolina ) and two unbuilt stations in Pine Bluff / Little Rock, Arkansas (signed on in 1986 as KJTM-TV ), Buffalo, New York (the permit for WNYB-TV), plus 49 percent of KRRT in the San Antonio market. (The Winston-Salem station was sold in order to acquire the Raleigh station, as their signals overlapped. ) The acquisition of WNOL typified TVX's cost-cutting ways. WNOL-TV had been put on
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