richmond bounce richmond on dt2 slogan it s for you general dare to defy during network programming channels digital 47 uhf virtual 65 psip subchannels 65.1 the cw 65.2 bounce tv 65.3 grit affiliations the cw owner american spirit media llc wupv license subsidiary llc operator raycom media first air date march 9 1990 ; 26 years ago 1990 03 09 call letters meaning upn virginia previous affiliation sister station s wwbt former callsigns wzxk 1990 1994 wawb 1994 1997 former channel number s analog 65 uhf 1990 2009 former affiliations independent 1990 1995 the wb 1995 1997 upn 1997 2006 pax secondary 1998 1999 transmitter power 1 000 kw height 249 m facility id 10897 transmitter coordinates 37 44 31 n 77 15 15 w 37.74194 n 77.25417 w 37.74194 ; 77.25417 licensing authority fcc public license information profile cdbs website cwrichmond.tv wupv is the cw affiliated television station for central virginia that is licensed to ashland . it broadcasts a high definition digital signal on uhf channel 47 virtual channel 65.1 via psip from a transmitter northeast of richmond in king william county along the hanover county line . owned by american spirit media the station is operated by raycom media though a shared services agreement ssa as sister to nbc affiliate wwbt . the two outlets share studios on midlothian turnpike u.s. 60 in richmond . contents 1 history 1.1 newscasts 2 digital television 2.1 digital channels 2.2 analog to digital conversion 3 programming 4 references 5 external links history edit this channel actually began as leased access cable tv channel 32 on what is now comcast in henrico county running religious programming around 1980 . christal inc. run by james campana the company leasing the channel later decided it wanted a full time broadcast station . it later applied for analog uhf channel 65 in ashland . but it took most of the 1980s to get the station on the air . first christal had to pay off a competing applicant then hanover county denied the company permission to construct a tower in its county . so the station was forced to build a tower site in neighboring king william county . it finally signed on march 9 1990 as a religious television station with the calls wzxk owned by christal broadcasting . originally offering only christian programs such as the 700 club and trinity broadcasting network s praise the lord it began branching into general entertainment programs in the later afternoon early evening hours over the next few years . by 1993 wzxk upgraded to 24 hour operations and increased non religious programming to occupy about a third of its daily schedule . for a while the station was calling itself fun 65 . two years later bell broadcasting purchased wzxk and affiliated it with the fledgling wb network while changing the calls to wawb and identifying itself as wb65 . in 1997 bell broadcasting sold the station to virginia based lockwood broadcasting which negotiated with wrlh to move the upn affiliation from being secondary on wrlh to primary on wawb . with this move wawb took the current calls of wupv . shortly after this move act iii broadcasting owner of fox affiliate wrlh tv was purchased by the sinclair broadcast group which was in the midst of changing many of its stations to the wb and was legally enjoined from doing so in richmond due to the contract signed by bell broadcasting after much trying . after the affiliation swap wb programming moved to nbc affiliate wwbt tv in 1998 where programming aired in overnight hours through summer 2006 . this arrangement led to richmond being one of the worst markets for wb network ratings . one problem was that wwbt could not carry the entire wb prime time line up due to time limitations so the station opted not to carry the network s friday night schedule . kids wb programming was cleared on wrlh . in 1998 wupv carried pax as a secondary affiliate until the network placed a 24 hour cable channel on most systems in richmond . it later evolved into ion television . in the early 2000s several attempts to launch a standalone wb affiliate in the market fell through among them low power channel 48 later reallocated and now daystar owned wrid lp and full power channel 19 reallocated to charlottesville and now cbs affiliate wcav . some upn affiliates aired a repeat of either america s next top model or veronica mars from that week during the weekend . wupv aired veronica mars on saturday mornings at 11 but quickly replaced it with infomercials in early june 2006 . this station was known on air as upn 65 from 1997 to 2002 . from 2003 to 2006 it was known as upn richmond . on january 24 2006 the warner bros. unit of time warner and cbs corporation the latter of which took over upn after viacom s announced split in december 2005 announced that they would shut down the wb and upn in the fall of that year . they would then form a joint venture and create a new tv service called the cw which would air programming carried over from those two networks as well as specific new content created exclusively for the cw . as the only available upn or wb affiliate in the richmond market it was announced on april 4 that wupv would affiliate with the cw . on may 29 a month after the announcement the station started airing commercials promoting its cw affiliation which took effect on september 18 . the station continued to carry upn programming except for its weekend movie until the network s closure . after wwbt dropped the wb as a secondary affiliation in late august 2006 wupv picked up the final two weeks of the network s programming on selected nights but did not air the final night of the network on september 17 . wrlh which offered kids wb began offering the other new network news corporation owned mynetworktv on september 5 via a new second digital subchannel . in 2006 the station was sold to southeastern media holdings now american spirit media and became sister station to wtvr tv . wupv moved operations into that channel s studios on broad street u.s. 33 u.s. 250 in the north side area of richmond . a new website for wupv was launched a short time afterward . in november 2007 raycom purchased wwbt from lincoln financial media which was closed on april 1 2008 . raycom was prohibited from owning two major big four network affiliates abc nbc cbs and fox in the same market so wtvr was chosen for divestiture . the first proposed buyer turned out to be the sinclair broadcast group but the united states department of justice refused permission for the sale under a consent decree with raycom . on march 31 2009 wtvr was swapped to local tv in exchange for wbrc in birmingham alabama . wupv had is operations moved again to wwbt s facilities . on september 16 2011 the station opened its second subchannel in preparation for the bounce tv network which premiered on september 26 . newscasts edit on march 5 2007 wupv launched a 35 minute weeknight newscast produced by wtvr called the cw news at 10 . this competed against wrlh s nightly broadcast fox news at 10 that is produced by wwbt . weekend newscasts began on october 20 2007 and ended a year later on october 19 . the final weeknight show aired on november 7 . three days later wtvr announced that the wupv broadcasts had been canceled due to high financial production costs . meanwhile wwbt became the first in the area to broadcast local newscasts in high definition on july 27 2008 . however the wrlh shows were not included in the upgrade because that channel currently lacks the necessary equipment to transmit local or syndicated programming in hd . as a result wrlh presents the wwbt news shows in pillar boxed 4 3 standard definition . on january 5 2009 wwbt began producing a new weeknight show for wupv called the cw news at 6 30 in high definition . it airs against the national news on the big three stations . airing from a secondary set this is streamed live on wupv s website . digital television edit digital channels edit the station s digital channel is multiplexed channel video aspect psip short name programming 1 65.1 1080i 16 9 wupv hd main wupv programming the cw 65.2 480i 4 3 bounce bounce tv 65.3 grit grittv analog to digital conversion edit wupv shut down its analog signal over uhf channel 65 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 47 . 2 through the use of psip digital television receivers display the station s virtual channel as its former uhf analog channel 65 which was among the high band uhf channels 52 69 that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition . programming edit syndicated programming on wupv includes the wendy williams show the real hot bench crazy talk and tmz on tv among others . references edit rabbitears tv query for wupv dtv tentative channel designations for the first and the second rounds pdf . retrieved 2012 03 24 . external links edit wupv cw richmond wwbt nbc 12 query the fcc s tv station database for wupv query tv fool s coverage map for wupv biafn s media web database information on wupv tv v t e broadcast television in central virginia including richmond and petersburg reception may vary by location and some stations may only be viewable with cable television local stations wtvr 6.1 cbs 6.2 antenna tv 6.3 cbs6 xtra wric 8.1 abc 8.2 ion 8.3 gettv wwbt 12.1 nbc 12.2 metv 12.3 escape wrlh tv 35.1 fox 35.2 mntv this tv 35.3 comet wwbk lp 39.1 laff wupv 65.1 the cw 65.2 bounce tv 65.3 grittv public television stations wcve 23.1 pbs 23.2 create 23.3 mhz worldview wcvw 57.1 pbs spanish language stations wztd ld 45.1 tel religious stations wxob lp 17 religious ind. wrid ld 48.1 daystar cable channels the comcast network comcast sportsnet mid atlantic masn defunct stations wflv lp 15 unknown w18cq unknown weri lp 39 unknown wsvl lp 48 unknown wfma lp 52 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