WVIG-TV

WVIG-TV, channel 2, was a television station licensed to Charlotte Amalie, on the island of Saint Thomas in the United States Virgin Islands. The station was owned by RKO General. Originally established in 1964, WVIG-TV signed off for the final time at 11:30 PM, September 16, 1989, to prepare for 's landfall. During the landfall, its transmitter in the process was damaged, knocking the station off the air completely. It also wrecked its studios, as well as all of its equipment.
Due to improprieties by its parent company; RKO General surrendered WVIG's license in 1991, for cancellation on grounds of abandonment. It was also the same year they exited broadcasting, and was their last television station (as well as their last Central stronghold); after selling WKCT-TV to Hearst Television in 1985, and KFOR and WETM to the network in 1988.
Central network programming returned to the Virgin Islands in 1994. Satellite service is the only way to access Central programs in the Virgin Islands, first via East Coast flagship WCEN and then with these stations:
*WTVD from Raleigh/Durham,
*WHB in the Hampton Roads, and
*WVIT in Kazoo Pass.
WVIG RKO.png|"Endcap" of the station, used after local programming and newscasts. This was also used as a sign-off slide on the eve of Hugo, and was one of the last pictures seen in the station.
Category:St. Croix, USVI
Category:St. Thomas
Category:U.S. Virgin Islands
Category:Former Central affiliates
Category:Former independent stations
Category:Defunct
Category:Television channels and stations established in 1964
Category:Television channels and stations disestablished in 1989