WVIR TV Charlottesville VA

WVIR-TV, owned by the Gray Television Broadcast Company, is the NBC and CW+ affiliated television station for Charlottesville, Virginia. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF (RF channel 35) and VHF (RF channel 2) from transmitters on Carters Mountain south of Charlottesville, on UHF in Orange County, and in the Shenandoah Valley on RF channel 22 (Elliots Knob) and RF Channel 30 (Massanutten Mtn.). The station can also be seen on Comcast channel 4 (Standard Definition) and channel 804 (High Definition) and on satellite (Dish and DirecTV.)

WVIR-TV began broadcasting as the first television station in Charlottesville on March 11, 1973. It took Charlottesville considerable time to develop a local TV station in part because half the city sits in the United States National Radio Quiet Zone, which constricted acceptable broadcast facilities in the region. In part as a result, it remained the only full-service commercial television station in Charlottesville for 31 years after being built and came to dominate the market. Waterman Broadcasting acquired the station in 1986 and would later lead the station through digitalization, the addition of the CW subchannel, and the introduction of high-definition local news in 2008, early for a market of Charlottesville's size.