WHSV-TV

WHSV-TV
Harrisonburg–Staunton, Virginia; United States;
City	Harrisonburg, Virginia
Channels	Digital: 20 (UHF); Virtual: 3;
Branding	WHSV; WHSV News; WSVW 3 in the Valley (3.2); MeTV on MyValley (3.4); CBS The V (3.5);
Programming
Affiliations	3.1: ABC; 3.2: NBC; 3.5: CBS; for others, see § Subchannels;
Ownership
Owner	Gray Media; (Gray Television Licensee, LLC);
Sister stations	WSVF-CD, WSVW-LD
History
First air date	October 1953
Former call signs	WSVA-TV (1953–1976)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 3 (VHF, 1953–2009); Digital: 49 (UHF, 2006–2018);
Former affiliations	NBC (1953–1968); DuMont (1953–1956); CBS (secondary, 1953–1963); NBC (secondary, 1968–1975); Fox (secondary, 1994–1996);
Call sign meaning	Harrisonburg, Shenandoah Valley
Technical information
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	4688
ERP	271 kW
HAAT	666.1 m (2,185 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	38°9′55.8″N 79°18′44.9″W / 38.165500°N 79.312472°W
Translator(s)	24 (UHF) Winchester; 25 (UHF) Broadway; 28 (UHF) Luray; W33EJ-D 33 (UHF) Moorefield; 34 (UHF) Massanutten;
Links
Public license information	Public file; LMS;
Website	www.whsv.com

WHSV-TV (channel 3) is a television station in Harrisonburg, Virginia, United States, affiliated with ABC. It is owned by Gray Media alongside two low-power stations: Class A dual Fox/CBS affiliate WSVF-CD (channel 43) and dual NBC/CW+ affiliate WSVW-LD (channel 30). The three stations share studios on North Main Street (US 11) in downtown Harrisonburg, and operate a newsroom in Fishersville, serving Staunton, Waynesboro, and Augusta County. WHSV-TV's transmitter is located at Elliott Knob west of Staunton.

WHSV-TV operates four fill-in digital translators: on UHF channel 24 on Signal Knob near Strasburg, serving the Winchester−Front Royal area (in the Washington, D.C., television market); on channel 25 licensed to Broadway and covering Woodstock and Mt. Jackson; on channel 28 licensed to Luray and covering Page County; and on channel 34 licensed to Massanutten and covering Harrisonburg. Its signal is also relayed in Moorefield, West Virginia, on low-power translator W33EJ-D, which is owned by Valley TV Cooperative, Inc.

As of December 1, 2019, WHSV is used to provide full-market over-the-air coverage of WSVW-LD (simulcast over WHSV-DT2) and WSVF-CD2 (simulcast over WHSV-DT5); however, only the WSVW-LD simulcast is aired in high definition.