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WVEC: History & Measurement

WVEC (channel 13) is a television station licensed to Hampton, Virginia, United States, serving the Hampton Roads area as an affiliate of ABC. It is owned by the Tegna subsidiary of Nexstar Media Group; Nexstar owns NBC affiliate WAVY-TV (channel 10) and Fox affiliate WVBT (channel 43). WVEC's studios are located on Woodis Avenue in Norfolk; its…

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WVEC topic overview

The analysis highlights History and Measurement as prominent areas in the source structure around WVEC.

Related topics
78
Source areas
4
Connected nodes
82
Extracted relationships
195
Concept neighborhoods
21
Bridge connections
82

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

History · 32 topics
Overview · 23 topics
News operation · 16 topics
Technical information · 7 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Owner
Tegna Inc., a subsidiary of Nexstar Media Group · (WVEC Television, LLC)
Affiliations
13.1: ABC · for others, see § Technical information
Branding
13News Now
Channels
Digital: 35 (UHF) · Virtual: 13
City
Hampton, Virginia
ERP
1,000 kW

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

History

News operation

Technical information

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How WVEC connects Entity context

The extracted context around WVEC shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, WVEC → ABC, Association, Atlantic City, August, Before, Bond, Broadcasting, Bungles, Clown, December, Educational, FCC, Final, Friday, Hampton, Hampton Roads Educational Television, In April, It, Jerry Sandford, July Another extracted example is WVEC → ABC News, Another, Barbara Ciara, Burden, By, By November, Chisman, December, During, FCC, Hampton Roads, However, Jim Kincaid, Kincaid, Knight Ridder, Landmark Communications, My Friends, Nicholas Johnson, Norfolk, Notes. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

WVEC

Top relations

related to Move to channel 13 · 47
WVEC → ABC, Association, Atlantic City, August, Before, Bond, Broadcasting, Bungles, Clown, December, Educational, FCC, Final, Friday, Hampton, Hampton Roads Educational Television, In April, It, Jerry Sandford, July
related to News operation · 30
WVEC → ABC News, Another, Barbara Ciara, Burden, By, By November, Chisman, December, During, FCC, Hampton Roads, However, Jim Kincaid, Kincaid, Knight Ridder, Landmark Communications, My Friends, Nicholas Johnson, Norfolk, Notes
related to The channel 15 era · 23
WVEC → At, August, CBS, FCC, February, Federal Communications Commission, For, Hampton, Hampton Roads, July, June, NBC, Newport News, The, The FCC, The Peninsula Broadcasting Corporation, TV, UHF, VHF, Virginia
related to Corinthian and Belo ownership · 21
WVEC → Belo Corporation, Bradstreet, By, Chisman, Corinthian, Corinthian Broadcasting, Dallas, Dun, FCC, February, Hampton, However, In, Norfolk, Peninsula Broadcasting Corporation, The, The Belo, Tidewater Evening, Under Corinthian, When Dun
related to Local News on Cable · 20
WVEC → After, Cable, Cox Communications, February, January, LNC, Local News, News, Norfolk, November, Offered, Pilot, Previously, The, The Virginian-Pilot, WPEN-LP, WSKY-TV, WVBT, WVBT's, WVEC-TV
related to Eastern Shore translators · 11
WVEC → Accomack County, Eastern Shore, Mappsville, On, Onancock, Virginia, W18EG-D, W25AA-D, WAVY-TV, WHRO-TV, WTKR
related to Notable former on-air staff · 11
WVEC → Barrett, Bartusiak, Hank Plante, Kincaid, Miller, Robinson, Sharyn Alfonsi, Verrett, William Whitehurst, WVEC's, Zahn
related to Technical information · 11
WVEC → April, Driver, It, June, May, Suffolk, The, UHF, United States, VHF, WVEC's
Affiliations · 2
WVEC → 13.1: ABC, for others, see § Technical information
Channels · 2
WVEC → Digital: 35 (UHF), Virtual: 13

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

channel station 13 news norfolk wvec-tv hampton wavy-tv television nbc new vhf 15 roads affiliate abc uhf broadcasting time local

WVEC relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 195 structured relationships around WVEC. Examples in this analysis include WVEC → Affiliations → 13.1: ABC and WVEC → Affiliations → for others, see § Technical information. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
WVECAffiliations13.1: ABC1.00infobox
WVECAffiliationsfor others, see § Technical information1.00infobox
WVECBranding13News Now1.00infobox
WVECChannelsDigital: 35 (UHF)1.00infobox
WVECChannelsVirtual: 131.00infobox
WVECCityHampton, Virginia1.00infobox
WVECERP1,000 kW1.00infobox
WVECFacility ID741671.00infobox
WVECFirst air dateSeptember 19, 1953 (1953-09-19)1.00infobox
WVECFormer affiliationsNBC (1953–1959)1.00infobox
WVECFormer channel numbersAnalog: 15 (UHF, 1953–1958), 13 (VHF, 1959–2009)1.00infobox
WVECFormer channel numbersDigital: 41 (UHF, 2002–2009), 13 (VHF, 2009–2020), 11 (VHF, 2020–2024)1.00infobox
WVECHAAT363.9 m (1,194 ft)1.00infobox
WVECLicensing authorityFCC1.00infobox
WVECOwnerTegna Inc., a subsidiary of Nexstar Media Group1.00infobox
WVECOwner(WVEC Television, LLC)1.00infobox
WVECPublic license informationPublic file1.00infobox
WVECPublic license informationLMS1.00infobox
WVECSister stationsNexstar: WAVY-TV, WVBT1.00infobox
WVECTransmitter coordinates.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-pars…1.00infobox
WVECWebsitewww.13newsnow.com1.00infobox

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around WVEC bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Wvec-tv, Hampton and Roads. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • television station
    • Hampton
    • Roads
    • Wvec
    • Uhf
    • Broadcasting
    • Station
    • Television
    • Programming
    • Vhf
    • Fcc
    • Norfolk
    • Stations
  • hampton, virginia
    • Roads
    • Television
    • Wvec
    • Station
    • Uhf
    • Vhf
    • Second
    • Abc
    • Norfolk
    • Affiliate
    • Wtar-tv
    • Nexstar
  • hampton roads
    • Roads
    • Television
    • Wvec
    • Vhf
    • Second
    • Station
    • Uhf
    • Affiliate
    • Wtar-tv
    • Abc
    • Norfolk
    • Third
  • abc
    • Affiliate
    • Move
    • Wavy-tv
    • Hampton
    • Began
    • Channel
    • Roads
    • Nbc
    • Wvec-tv
    • Television
    • Norfolk
    • Tegna
  • channel 33 in newport news
    • Wvec
    • New
    • First
    • Hampton
    • Television
    • Time
    • Uhf
    • Newscast
    • Norfolk
    • Vhf
    • Roads
    • Wavy-tv
  • abc news
    • Affiliate
    • Wvec
    • First
    • Move
    • Wavy-tv
    • Time
    • Newscast
    • Norfolk
    • Wavy
    • Hampton
    • Ratings
    • Station
  • digital television transition
    • Hampton
    • Roads
    • Wvec
    • Uhf
    • Broadcasting
    • Station
    • Programming
    • Fcc
    • Norfolk
    • Stations
    • Began
    • News
  • news operation
    • Wvec
    • First
    • Time
    • Newscast
    • Norfolk
    • Wavy
    • Ratings
    • Station
    • Television
    • Wtkr
    • Programming
    • Move

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For WVEC, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects WVEC with History. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
WVECHistory · splits 50 ⟂ 33
WVECOverview · splits 59 ⟂ 24
WVECNews operation · splits 66 ⟂ 17
WVECTechnical information · splits 75 ⟂ 8

Map overview Semantic statistics

WVEC

Nodes83
Edges82
Triples195
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.024096
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around WVEC to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History & Measurement, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — WVEC · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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