WGNT

For the station that currently uses the WTOV callsign, see WTOV-TV.

WTOV-TV

1953–1956

LOGO MISSING

WTOV was the Hampton Roads DuMont affiliate; eventually going dark soon after DuMont folded.

WYAH-TV

1961–1967

LOGO MISSING

In 1961; the now-defunct station was acquired by Pat Robertson, a young Southern Baptist preacher and son of then-Virginia Senator A. Willis Robertson. Robertson would own the station until 1989.

1967–1978

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1975 WYAH print logo

WYAH print logo with call letters

WYAH print logo with call letters in different font

WYAH logo with "Come On Over" slogan. "Come On Over" was the name of a children's show hosted by future 700 Club and later PTL hosts Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker during the 1960s and early 1970s.

1978–1983

WYAH "Continental 27" print logo. Continental refers to the group of stations owned by Robertson as a for-profit company separate from non-profit Christian Broadcasting Network.

1983–1989

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1988 WYAH ID taken from promo

April 1988 WYAH Eight O'Clock Movie promo. The movie featured here is the made-for-TV film "A Killing Affair"

1988 WYAH promo for reruns of "Wonder Woman"

WYAH ID used from 1988-89 (beginning of animation)

WYAH ID used from 1988-89 (completion of animation)

Fall 1988 WYAH "Viewer Guide" promo intro ("The A-Team")

Fall 1988 WYAH "Viewer Guide" promo outro ("The A-Team")

WYAH color bars

WYAH would drop the "-TV" suffix in 1983.

WGNT

1989–2002

The underlying design (a 27 in a Futura-esque typeface) would be retained with only minor adjustments until 2002.

1989–1995

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For the entirety of WGNT's tenure as an independent after the station was sold by CBN to Centennial Broadcasting, the 27 would have the "2" stacked slightly over the "7".

1989–95 WGNT ID

1989-90 WGNT ID

1989-91 WGNT digital on-screen ID taken from a 1990 recording of the Tom & Jerry short "Tom & Cherie"

1990 WGNT Promo ("Laverne & Shirley")

1990 WGNT Friday Night Movie Promo ("The Year of Living Dangerously")

1990 WGNT "The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!" (displayed as "Super Mario Brothers") Promo

1990 WGNT "The Odd Couple" Promo

Early 1990s WGNT "Bugs Bunny and Friends" Rejoin Bumper

1990 WGNT "Dennis the Menace" cartoon promo. This promo is part of an apparent "Turn On the Heat" campaign WGNT was running during the summer of 1990.

1993-94 WGNT station ID

1993-94 WGNT Late Night movie intro (from airing of the 1983 made-for-TV movie "Found Money")

1993-94 WGNT station ID during "Weekend Jam" promo

1993-94 WGNT promo ("Midnight Run")

1993-94 WGNT public service PSA bumper

1994 WGNT Sunday Cineplex bumper

1994 WGNT "The Jon Stewart Show" Promo

1994 WGNT "Babylon 5" Promo

1994 WGNT "Robin's Hoods" Promo

1994 WGNT digital on-screen ID (from Sunday Cineplex airing of the 1985 movie "Commando")

1994 WGNT station ID

1994 WGNT "Baywatch" Promo

December 1994 WGNT ID teasing the January 16, 1995 launch of UPN

WYAH was sold to Centennial Broadcasting in the fall of 1989 and renamed WGNT.

1995–2001

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WGNT became a UPN affiliate upon the network's launch on January 16, 1995. At that point, the "2" and "7" were positioned next to each other instead of being stacked.

1995 WGNT promo for "The Tempestt Bledsoe Show"

1995 WGNT promo for "The 700 Club"

October 1, 1995 WGNT ID during UPN Monday night fall lineup

October 1, 1995 WGNT promo for future sister station WTKR's "TV 3 News at 10 on UPN 27". The "TV 3 News" branding would be replaced shortly after this broadcast by "NewsChannel 3".

October 31, 1995 WGNT ID from that night's "NewsChannel 3 News at 10 on UPN 27"; produced by local CBS affiliate and future sister station WTKR.

1995 WGNT promo for the television version of "The Rush Limbaugh Show"

1995 WGNT promo for WTKR's "NewsChannel 3 News at 10 on UPN 27"; taken shortly after the NewsChannel 3 branding was adopted in place of WTKR's previous "TV-3 News" branding.

December 3, 1995 promo for UPN's Monday lineup ("Star Trek: Voyager" and "Nowhere Man") and WGNT ID

December 4, 1995 WGNT "The Stephanie Miller Show" promo

1996 WGNT text-only station ID taken from intro to "Baywatch Nights"

January 1996 WGNT promo for "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys" and "Xena: Warrior Princess"

January 1996 WGNT ID during UPN Tuesday night winter-spring lineup

1990s WGNT Saturday Matinee bumper taken from a 1996 airing of "Old Yeller"

June 1996 WGNT "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" promo

1996 WGNT Late Movie bumper taken from an airing of "Feds"

June 1996 WGNT ID taken from promo for UPN's Fall 1996 season

1997 Station ID

"NewsChannel 3 News at 10 on UPN 27" 1997 News Open

"NewsChannel 3 News at 10 on UPN 27" with WGNT Station Bug.

1998 WGNT ID

November 1998 WGNT promo for "The Nanny"

2001–2002

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For this version, the "27" is shown on the same level of the UPN logo.

2002–2006

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2006–2010

HD version with Cable Channel above

WGNT became a CW affiliate upon the network's launch on September 18, 2006.

2010–2016

Alternate version of the logo (2015-2016)

2016–present

On September 1, 2024; the CW affiliation moved from WGNT to WVBT's 43.2 subchannel, with WGNT reverting to an independent for the first time in nearly 30 years.

Alternate logo with the 27 in Avant Garde

Programming Bug

Version with the CW logo (2024)

WGNT Logo with sister station WTKR's news background.

Promo from September 2024.