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35-605: The McConnellsburg Historic District was recognized by the United States Department of the Interior in 1993 when it was listed in the National Register of Historic Places . The district consists of 144 structures that contribute to its historic character. Of notable meaning are the numerous taverns, inns, automotive garages and other travel-related structures still in existence today, which includes

70-445: A Northern Virginia Bureau covering Chantilly , Leesburg , Berryville , and Winchester was opened. Although not a full news department, this is now the second local news operation established in those areas after TV3 Winchester launched on March 5, 2007. All of the preceding changes required the expansion of WHAG's personnel. On October 21, 2013, WHAG began broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition . Nexstar undertook

105-504: A " farm team " operation that features new journalists and behind the scenes staff who have graduated from their schools looking for experience at a small-market television station and serve as " one man band " personnel that shoot, write, and edit their own stories, and eventually move on to further opportunities in larger markets. The station operates a bureau on East Patrick Street ( MD 144 ) in Frederick . On August 30, 2010, WHAG added

140-515: A half hour to its weekday noon and 5 p.m. newscasts. Until this point unlike most NBC affiliates in the Eastern Time Zone , the station had not aired a broadcast weeknights at 5:30. It still does not offer a full two-hour weekday morning newscast. There is now a half hour broadcast on Monday-Saturday nights at 7. On weekends, an hour-long morning show at 6 a.m. as well as a half hour Sunday morning broadcast at 9 p.m. were added. In addition,

175-437: A household in the borough was $ 25,987, and the median income for a family was $ 33,125. Males had a median income of $ 28,478 versus $ 20,577 for females. The per capita income for the borough was $ 16,884. About 14.9% of families and 17.3% of the population were below the poverty line , including 31.7% of those under age 18 and 14.9% of those age 65 or over. Newspaper: The Fulton County News Television McConnellsburg, and

210-617: A major expansion of WDVM-TV's news operation that launched on July 1, 2016, the same day the station lost its NBC affiliation. While it broadcasts standard newscasts at 5:30 a.m., 6 a.m., noon, 5 p.m., 6 p.m., and 10 p.m., the 7 a.m., 7 p.m., and 11 p.m. hours are also set aside for Maryland- ( I-270 News ) and Northern Virginia-specific ( Nova News ) coverage. WDVM-TV also simulcasts Nexstar-owned WOWK-TV 's Tonight Live at 5:30 p.m. On July 11, 2022, Nexstar moved WDVM-TV's primary studios from Hagerstown to Washington and rebranded newscasts as DC News Now , along with changing many of

245-521: A new 9 p.m. newscast. WDVM-TV's 10 p.m. newscast moved to WDCW and the 11 p.m. newscast was replaced by a half-hour sports program. The station's signal is multiplexed : WHAG's broadcasts became digital-only, effective June 12, 2009. As part of the spectrum repacking process following the FCC's incentive auction , WDVM changed from channel 26 to 23 on August 2, 2019. However, its virtual channel number remains 25. The effective reach of WDVM-TV's signal

280-605: A news-intensive independent station focused on the Washington market, first combining the operations of their two stations by bringing WDCW and WDVM-TV under the same management in February 2020. Later in the year, WDVM-TV added rebroadcasts of syndicated programming seen on WDCW, while that station added a standard-definition simulcast to allow over-the-air coverage of WDVM-TV to the entire market along with expanded cable and satellite carriage. In December 2023, Nexstar applied to

315-464: Is a national historic district that is located in McConnellsburg , Fulton County, Pennsylvania . It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. This district includes 142 contributing buildings and one contributing site that are located in the central business district and surrounding residential areas of McConnellsburg. The district includes buildings reflective of

350-608: Is available to subscribers that currently receive the Washington, D.C. market locals. WDVM-TV had also been seen on Dish as the default NBC affiliate for the Salisbury television market, as that market did not have an NBC affiliate of its own until June 2014, when WRDE-LD in nearby Rehoboth Beach, Delaware , switched its affiliation to NBC. It is also viewed in widescreen standard definition on Verizon FiOS in Montgomery County, Maryland. On February 26, 2020, WDVM-TV

385-657: Is located in eastern Fulton County in the Ridge and Valley section of the Appalachian Mountains in southern Pennsylvania. It is situated in a 2-mile-wide (3 km) valley between Tuscarora Mountain to the east and Little Scrub Ridge and Meadow Grounds Mountain to the west. According to the United States Census Bureau , the borough has a total area of 0.35 square miles (0.9 km), all land. U.S. Route 522 passes north–south through

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420-661: Is owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside CW owned-and-operated station WDCW (channel 50). The two stations share studios on Wisconsin Avenue in the Glover Park section of Washington; WDVM-TV's transmitter is located on Fairview Mountain, west of Clear Spring, Maryland . The station signed on the air as WHAG-TV on January 3, 1970. It was originally owned by Warren Adler along with WHAG radio in Halfway ( AM 1410 and FM 96.7, now WDLD ). WHAG-TV's original analog transmitter

455-533: Is the valley stretching from Hagerstown to Martinsburg, West Virginia , and Winchester, Virginia, far from the core of the Washington market. Its main channel only is simulcast in 480i widescreen standard definition (virtual channel 25.1) on the Washington-based signal of WDCW in order to cover the rest of the market. Recently, it has been added to the Dish Network lineup of local offerings and

490-415: The 1992 Cable Act , which regulated cable carriage of broadcast stations, only cable systems in that county were required to carry WHAG-TV. That year, Arbitron ceased publishing television ratings and the commission switched to Nielsen 's designated market area (DMA) system for market assignments, which combined Hagerstown with the far larger Washington, D.C., area to create a top-ten market. The terms of

525-547: The Fulton House , the Fulton County Courthouse, and the log cabin of Daniel McConnell , who laid out the borough on April 20, 1786. It was further incorporated on March 26, 1814. Currently McConnellsburg's largest economic driver is Oshkosh Corporation -owned JLG Industries , a major manufacturer of construction and maintenance access-related lifting equipment such as boomlifts, etc. McConnellsburg

560-468: The Greek Revival , Georgian , and Federal styles. The buildings date to roughly between 1762 and 1940, and include commercial, institutional and residential buildings. Notable non-residential buildings include the Fulton County Courthouse (1852), Old Fulton County Jail, former Washington Hotel (1852), and the former Albert Stoner Store (1893). The contributing site is the cemetery associated with

595-621: The Pennsylvania Turnpike . US 30 leads east 21 miles (34 km) to Chambersburg and 19 miles (31 km) west to Breezewood . PA 16 leads southeast 10 miles (16 km) to Mercersburg and 20 miles (32 km) to Greencastle . As of the census of 2000, there were 1,073 people, 506 households, and 271 families residing in the borough. The population density was 2,998.2 inhabitants per square mile (1,157.6/km). There were 551 housing units at an average density of 1,539.6 per square mile (594.4/km). The racial makeup of

630-549: The Act thus required in-market cable systems whose principal headends are closer to Hagerstown than Washington to add WHAG-TV; since the Act allows them to decline to carry multiple affiliates of the same network, they also had the option of dropping Washington's WRC-TV . Despite this change, WHAG-TV never saw itself as a Washington-market station; it applied for and received exemptions from FCC rules applying to large-market stations, such as expanded public file requirements. However,

665-513: The FCC to move WDVM-TV's transmitter site to a tower at Blue Mountain near Front Royal, Virginia , along with a power increase to 1,000 kW; the move was to substantially increase over-the-air coverage of Washington and suburban northern Virginia while still covering the Hagerstown area. After the FCC requested several rounds of reports and technical changes to minimize the population in rural Maryland and Pennsylvania that would lose what

700-542: The Methodist Episcopal Church. Located in the district but separately listed are the Fulton House and the log cabin of Daniel McConnell . It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. WDVM-TV WDVM-TV (channel 25) is an independent television station licensed to Hagerstown, Maryland , United States, serving the Washington, D.C. , television market . It

735-576: The assets of Chicago -based Tribune Media —which has owned Washington-based CW affiliate WDCW (channel 50) since 1999—for $ 6.4 billion in cash and debt. The sale was approved by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on September 16 and was completed on September 19, 2019, forming a nominal duopoly with WDCW. On July 1, 2019, all Heroes & Icons programming was dropped in favor of additional syndicated programming. Nexstar began repositioning WDVM-TV as

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770-544: The borough was 97.02% White , 0.84% African American , 0.19% Native American , 0.09% Asian , 0.09% Pacific Islander , and 1.77% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.56% of the population. There were 506 households, out of which 22.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 37.7% were married couples living together, 12.1% had a female householder with no husband present, and 46.4% were non-families. 42.1% of all households were made up of individuals, and 21.3% had someone living alone who

805-418: The call sign WDVM-TV. The change came after the station undertook the expansion of its cable carriage throughout most of the Washington, D.C., market, with news director Mark Kraham stating that "we wanted to make it clear that we're not just a Hagerstown station". The callsign had previously been used in the market by what is now WUSA from 1978 to 1986. On December 3, 2018, Nexstar announced it would acquire

840-668: The center of town as Second Street. The main east–west street through the town center is Lincoln Way, or old U.S. Route 30 (the Lincoln Highway ). U.S. Route 30 now bypasses the borough on a limited access highway to the north. The west end of Pennsylvania Route 16 is in McConnellsburg, following Lincoln Way and then the Buchanan Trail southeast out of town. Via US 522 it is 24 miles (39 km) south to Hancock, Maryland , and 9 miles (14 km) north to

875-471: The commission considers adequate local broadcast television coverage (within the Longley-Rice noise-limited contour of five full-power or Class A stations), the relocation was approved on February 12, 2024. The relocation has yet to occur, as the presence of Daystar 's WDDN-LD and WDWA-LD on channel 23 in Washington and Burke, Virginia , respectively, present another technical obstacle. Right from

910-468: The fact remained that WHAG-TV was now technically competing with network-owned WRC-TV. The Herald-Mail reported that NBC was declining to renew its affiliation with WHAG on February 19, 2016, and a network spokesperson confirmed this with a terse, one-sentence email to the paper. The station ceased broadcasting network programming on July 1. Beginning in 2014, NBC revoked affiliations from several affiliates, including WHAG-TV, WMGM-TV (whose broadcast area

945-483: The on-air personality and anchor lineups. The former studios in Hagerstown are now used as a bureau, alongside the existing Frederick and Chantilly bureaus. On July 25, another newscast expansion occurred, with the morning newscast expanding to four hours, the 5 p.m. newscast expanding to an hour (which also resulted in the move of the WOWK-produced Tonight Live to 11:30 p.m.), and the addition of

980-589: The rest of Fulton County, are located in the Washington, D.C. television market, but also are covered by Altoona and Harrisburg channels-but stations are difficult to catch with an antenna, requiring cable or satellite. An antenna can, however, sometimes get stations based out of the Hagerstown sub-market, such as WDVM and WWPB . Local stations include ABC: WJLA , WHTM NBC: WRC , WGAL CBS: WUSA , WHP Fox: WTTG , WPMT The CW: WDCW , WHP-DT3 MyNetworkTV: WDCA , WHP-DT2 McConnellsburg Historic District The McConnellsburg Historic District

1015-488: The start (January 3, 1970), WHAG began offering local newscasts with The Valley News which aired weeknights at 6, 7, and 11 p.m. The original anchors were Bob Witt with news, Glenn Presgraves with sports, and Bill Wolfinger forecasting the weather. Wolfinger also did a Saturday night horror movie show where he would be in costume similar to Lon Chaney. The news department expanded in 1972 to include weekend evening broadcasts at 11 that totaled six hours of local news per week. By

1050-535: The station to Great Trails Broadcasting in 1981. Great Trails then exited broadcasting and sold WHAG along with 2 of its stations— WFFT-TV in Fort Wayne, Indiana , and KSVI in Billings, Montana , to Quorum Broadcasting in 1998 for $ 65 million. On September 8, 2003, Nexstar Broadcasting Group announced that it would acquire Quorum Broadcasting and its stations (including WHAG-TV) for $ 230 million. The sale

1085-416: The year 2000, news content increased to over 22 hours of broadcasts per week. In 1997, WHAG added a microwave truck allowing the transmitting of live breaking news from the viewing area. On February 12, 2010, the station switched its on-air and news brandings from "NBC 25" and NBC 25 News to "WHAG" and WHAG News , respectively. Outside of a few senior staffers, the station's news department mainly acted as

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1120-450: Was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.01 and the average family size was 2.72. In the borough the population was spread out, with 19.9% under the age of 18, 6.9% from 18 to 24, 24.9% from 25 to 44, 20.4% from 45 to 64, and 28.0% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 44 years. For every 100 females there were 80.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 75.9 males. The median income for

1155-409: Was completed on December 31 , 2003. Prior to 1996, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) used Arbitron 's Area of Dominant Influence (ADI) system to assign television stations to a media market , principally to determine cable carriage rights and applicable regulations and fees. Arbitron placed WHAG-TV in its own 192nd-ranked ADI consisting solely of Washington County . After the passage of

1190-425: Was served by network-owned WCAU ), and KENV-DT (whose broadcast area was served by KSL-TV ), that functioned as secondary NBC stations serving outlying areas of their larger markets. In addition to expanding local news, WHAG-TV also added programs from Heroes & Icons at the time. The last NBC program to air on WHAG was Last Call with Carson Daly . On July 1, 2017, the station rebranded itself and adopted

1225-713: Was to be on top of the Hagerstown Motor Inn (now the Alexander House) but was rejected due to structural incompatibility. A site on Fairview Mountain would become the location of the analog signal on UHF channel 25. The station was an NBC affiliate; network anchors Chet Huntley and David Brinkley welcomed the station to the network during their newscast that night. Adler Communications sold WHAG-TV to Sheldon and Samuel Magazine of Washington, D.C., in 1973. The Magazine brothers then sold it to local aviation pioneer Richard Henson in 1977. Henson then sold

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