The station is owned by Tegna Inc., and maintains studios on Woodis Avenue in Norfolk; its transmitter is located in Suffolk, Virginia.

[4] It was signed on by Peninsula Broadcasting Corporation,[5] co-owned by Hampton businessman Thomas P. Chisman and several other stockholders, along with WVEC radio (1490 AM, now WXTG; and 101.3 FM, now WWDE-FM).

Four years later, Dun sold Corinthian to Belo, which owned the Dallas Morning News and WFAA-TV in its home city.

Pilot 13 News at 10 ceased production on January 30, 2009, however, the partnership with the Virginian-Pilot was expected to continue on a lesser level.

In February 2018, the logo for WVEC was updated along with a new theme curated by Sixième Son entitled "C Clarity" used for the newscasts.

Compilations of these essays were published in several books authored by Kincaid, including Notes from Elam, referring to the small town in Prince Edward County, Virginia, where his farm was located.

He returned to Vietnam in 1994 and reported from the same locations he had covered in the 1960s, producing an award-winning documentary and series of news stories.

[14] Each year, the American Cancer Society presents the Terry Zahn Award to a supporter of the Relay for Life.

Hampton Roads TV news veteran Barbara Ciara began her career in the market at WVEC-TV, before joining WAVY-TV in 1983.

[16] The station's signal is multiplexed: On November 8, 2010, WVEC added ABC's Live Well Network (now Localish) on channel 13.2.

On January 1, 2024, WVEC replaced Twist on subchannel 13.5 with a secondary feed of fellow Tegna-owned diginet True Crime Network.

There is one low-power translator of WVEC that is located in the Eastern Shore of Virginia and is municipally-owned by Accomack County rather than Tegna.