evwalker0901

Check your lineup...

 

I was at work today and was playing TV Channel roulette in the break room and saw Channel 811 was listed as H+I and had "WHAG News" at 5pm. I cut out of work a few minutes early and headed home and yup, WDVM is now on 811. Not sure where HSN is now... My PC still says the channel is HSN, but the programming is WDVM.

 

In one of the leadins during the 5pm newscast, the VO was "Covering Hagerstown, Frederick, Alexandria, and Winchester, you're watching WDVM News, your local news leader". Pushing the NoVa coverage... (Next leadin had Hagerstown, Martinsburg, Leesburg, and Silver Spring)

 

It'll be interesting to see how they promote in as well as cover the local area...

5pm - Regional News

5:30pm - West Virginia Tonight

6:00pm - Local (Hagerstown/WV Panhandle) news

7:00pm - Northern Virginia News

7:30pm - I-270 News (Frederick/Monthgomery counties)

 

Also, the FCC database has been updated with the new call sign (yesterday - Sunday - it still had WHAG in the database)

 

Interesting...

Where do you work/live bud? As of this posting, 811 is still HSN here in Ashburn (Loudoun County) .

I drove up from Arlington to Hagerstown to record the last newscast on WHAG. It appeared that the 10pm was live, but the 11pm NoVa News seemed to be taped (10pm anchors and stories mentioned 10pm, whereas 11pm didn't mention a time) and had a slightly different feel. No promotion of the change except one reference of "for the last time" during the open, a reference to the new website near the end, and the same promo already posted run a few times. Everything else (promos during the newscast) still was referencing "WHAG News" and "Your4State.com". I can see them dropping the Pennsyvania coverage, since Comcast dropped/is dropping the station in PA (receivable OTA, but not in market)... (But Comcast doesn't' carry the station in DC Northern Virginia Suburbs...)

 

IMHO! The graphics need a little work - the WHAG/your4state.com rotating bug looks weird over no background, as do the Facebook/Twitter/other social media links,

 

I can see them going for full market coverage - the weather included down to Woodbridge, and stories included Fairfax and Springfield as well as the Winchester area.

 

Jim

I hope they launch here in loudoun Comcast soon! Comcast here is weird as it is segmented unlike Fios which generally covers a DMA. For instance, there is comcast of reston (which has WDVM) and there is loudoun county Comcast (which does not carry it as of yet). Kind of backwards if you ask me as loudoun houses some of the key NOVA demo they are reaching out to...

This must've been a new development as they appear on no lineups as of yet.

They launched on their expanded systems on 6/21 so yeah it's still fairly new. Most TV listings I've researched do not reflect the change yet.

Video courtesy of WHAG's Facebook wall.

 

Doesn't look like the graphics and set will change. Just the new logo. And it sounds like Inergy theme music on the promo.

 

Looked that the FCC callsign reservation query, and Nexstar filed to reserve the call sign WDVM-TV back on 5/17.

 

So exactly one year after dropping NBC, they're now getting brand new calls. Interesting.

 

Also no more Your4State. Their new url will be LocalDVM.com (whenever it launches).

I'm in the DC market so I sent an email to the GM and got the attached response. It appears they have Coverage on Fios in all of the DC suburbs and portions of the area on Comcast.

Agreed! I always wondered why they kept passing him up. As someone who has lived in the DC market his entire life, it's a welcome change.

News has been announced that longtime weekend veteran Bruce Johnson will replace Derek Mcginty at WUSA.

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