WSVI
ion Television affiliate in Christiansted, U.S. Virgin Islands
WSVI (channel 8) is a television station serving the United States Virgin Islands that is licensed to Christiansted, Saint Croix. It primarily operates as an independent station, but airs some programming from Ion Television. Owned by Atlas News and Information Services, WSVI has studios at the Sunny Isle Shopping Center on Queen Mary Highway in Christiansted, and its transmitter is located on Blue Mountain.
WZVI (channel 21) in Charlotte Amalie, Saint Thomas, operates as a satellite station of WSVI, with transmitter on Flag Hill. The two stations are collectively branded as the Virgin Islands Television Network.
History
WSVI signed on as an ABC affiliate on November 10, 1965. During its ABC affiliation, WSVI signed off nightly at 2 a.m. AST (1 a.m. AST March to November), but the station now carries a 24-hour schedule. During non-network programming time, WSVI carried paid programming, Caribbean Lottery drawings, some local arts and events programming, and their weeknight-only local newscasts, as the U.S. Virgin Islands receives other broadcast networks and superstations from the mainland United States via cable and satellite.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “WSVI” as ion Television affiliate in Christiansted, U.S. Virgin Islands. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
Why this record matters
The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as ion Television affiliate in Christiansted, U.S. Virgin Islands. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7955997. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1965.
Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
How to read it
Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.
- Identifying works and editions
- Tracing reception history
- Finding collection records
The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.
Three-step research path
- Establish the record: confirm the title “WSVI”, its source revision and the description used here.
- Expand the search: follow WSVI primary sources, WSVI archive and WSVI research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
- Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.
Questions for further research
- Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “WSVI”?
- Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
- Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
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This entry incorporates text from “WSVI” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.