TV3 Winchester

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TV3 Winchester

Winchester-Front Royal-Berryville- Woodstock, Virginia (cable) Harrisonburg, Virginia (digital television) United States
Channels	Analog: 3 (Comcast cable) & 101 (ShenTel cable) Digital: WHSV-DT 49.3 & 42.3 (UHF) Virtual: WHSV-DT 3.3
Branding	TV3 Winchester (general) TV3 Winchester News (news)
Programming
Affiliations	ABC (primary) This TV (secondary)
Ownership
Owner	Gray Television
Sister stations	WHSV-TV
History
First air date	March 5, 2007 (17 years ago) (2007-03-05)
Last air date	December 5, 2013 (10 years ago) (2013-12-05)
Call sign meaning	Refers to parent WHSV's longtime "TV3" branding, as well as cable channel allocation on Comcast
Links
Website	www.tv3winchester.com

TV3 Winchester was a subchannel service of Harrisonburg, Virginia-based television station WHSV-TV, programmed as a standalone, primarily-cable station serving as the ABC and secondary This TV affiliate for nearby Winchester, Virginia from 2007 to 2013. Owned by Gray Television, it maintained studios on Millwood Avenue and US 50 in Winchester, separate from its parent's studios in Harrisonburg.

The channel was available on Comcast Xfinity channel 3 in Frederick, Clarke and Warren counties and ShenTel Cable channel 101 in Shenandoah County, and on UHF channels 49.3 (PSIP 3.3) in the Harrisonburg area via the main WHSV transmitter. From 2010 until its 2013 shutdown, it was also available in the northern Shenandoah Valley on UHF channel 42.3 via a translator station on Signal Knob near Strasburg. It was never available on cable in the immediate Harrisonburg market.

History and personnel

TV-3 Winchester was first announced at a press conference at

-only station, "Winchester Community Television". Construction was completed in November 2006 and the station launched on March 5, 2007.

Brad Ramsey, formerly the sports director/anchor and more recently a sales account executive at WHSV, handled general manager duties. Brad brought Tony Versley, an Emmy Award-winning broadcast engineer on board as Director of Operations and Doug Stanford, formerly of WHSV, as Director of Creative Services and Promotions. Bill DuVall was hired in September 2006 as TV-3's News Director. DuVall previously worked at

from 1991 to 1994. DuVall turned the reins of TV-3 Winchester over to Denise Chandler in 2008.

Gray Television shut down TV3 Winchester on December 5, 2013, citing inability to make the station a viable long-term operation.

was eventually added to that subchannel.

References

1. WJLA
   . December 5, 2013. Retrieved December 5, 2013.