WNVT (channel 23.3) is a non-commercial educational television station licensed to Spotsylvania Courthouse, Virginia, United States, serving the Richmond metropolitan area.
WNVT is operated in a pair with Culpeper-licensed WNVC (channel 41.3), which serves the Charlottesville area from a transmitter atop Carters Mountain.
Instead, it continued W14AA's coverage of Congress, along with State Department briefings, the Virginia General Assembly, county and local governments, school boards and fire districts.
[13][14] In 1993, a pledge drive featuring a week of foreign films generated unexpectedly high interest, convincing management there was an audience for foreign-language content.
WNVT's daily educational programming was branded as "MHz Learn", and it continued relaying MuchMusic USA in the evenings.
[21] In 2003, WNVT became digital-only on channel 30 due to the cost of running both analog and digital signals simultaneously in its largely rural coverage area.
[25] Rather than continuing with their own programming lineups, the two stations placed a total of eight digital subchannels on their two signals, largely consisting of relays of international satellite channels.
[19] Two months before the end of broadcast operations in Washington, on February 1, 2018, RT America was dropped from WNVC's signal, apparently due to concerns that MHz Networks or CPBC would be required to register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
[27][28][29] CPBC announced on March 31, 2017, that it had sold the licenses of WNVC and WNVT in the Federal Communications Commission's ongoing spectrum reallocation auction for $182 million.
[29] CPBC did not see a need to continue running the two over-the-air signals, as the Washington market is already served by public television stations WETA-TV, WHUT-TV, and WMPT, and it would prefer to focus on local and PBS programming.
The stations' cities of license were required to remain in the Washington market and moved to Spotsylvania Courthouse and Culpeper, respectively.