WSVI

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WSVI
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Christiansted, U.S. Virgin Islands
Branding NewsChannel 8
Slogan The Virgin Islands Very Own
Channels Analog: 8 (VHF)

Digital: 20 (UHF)
Translators WFIG-LP 5 Charlotte Amalie
WZVI (DT) 43 Charlotte Amalie
Affiliations ABC
Owner Alpha Broadcasting Corporation
First air date November 10, 1965
Call letters’ meaning United States Virgin Islands
Transmitter Power 200 kW (analog)
459 kW (digital)
Height 292 m (analog)
305 m (digital)
Class Full service
Facility ID 2370
Transmitter Coordinates 17°45′13.7″N, 64°47′54.5″W
Website www.wsvi.tv

WSVI is an ABC-affiliated, full-power television station in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands transmitting over analog channel 8, digital 20. The station is owned by Alpha Broadcasting Corporation.

WSVI has a digital-only satellite, WZVI channel 43, in Charlotte Amalie, as well as an analog translator, WFIG-LP channel 5. WSVI is one of the few stations that still sign-off at night. It signs off at 1AM after Jimmy Kimmel Live and does not show World News Now. Plus, it shows very little syndicated programming, filling most of the non-network programming times with infomercials.

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Broadcast television stations in the United States Virgin Islands

Saint Thomas:  WFIG-LP 5 (ABC) - WTJX 12 (PBS) - WVGN-LP 14 (NBC) - WVXF 17 (CBS) - WMNS-LP 22 (Ind) - W29CB 29 (3ABN) - WBIV-LP 38 (Ind) 

Saint Croix:  W05AW 5 (PBS) - WSVI 8 (ABC) - WVIF 15 - WJWM-LP 34 (Ind) - W35CE 35 (TBN) - WCVI 39 (The CW) - WEYA-LP 52 (Ind) - WEON-LP 60 (Fox) 

Digital-only stations
Saint Thomas: WZVI 43 (ABC) 

Stations from Puerto Rico available over the air and on cable television
WKAQ 2 (TEL) - WAPA 4 (Ind) - WIPR 6 (PBS) 

Past broadcast stations
Saint Thomas: WBNB 10 (CBS) 
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