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The Virgin Islands Daily News is a daily newspaper in the United States Virgin Islands headquartered on the island of Saint Thomas. In 1995 the newspaper became one of the smallest ever to win journalism's most prestigious award, the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. The newspaper is published every day except Sunday.
This is a list of broadcast television stations that are licensed in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The U.S. Virgin Islands is home to one of the smallest TV markets as defined by Nielsen market research, with only 5 full-power stations on Saint Thomas and Saint Croix.
Channel 4: WNBC - - New York City, NBC 4 New York; Channel 5: WNYW - - New York City, FOX 5, WABD when it was the Flagship station of the DuMont Television Network, became WNEW before 1986; Channel 7: WABC-TV - - New York City, ABC 7 or Channel 7; Channel 9: WWOR-TV - (MyNetworkTV) - Secaucus, NJ, My 9 (New York City), known as WOR before 1987
WSVI (channel 8) is a television station serving the United States Virgin Islands that is licensed to Christiansted, Saint Croix, and affiliated with Ion. It is owned by Atlas News and Information Services alongside Charlotte Amalie–licensed independent station WZVI (channel 21). The two stations share studios at the Sunny Isle Shopping ...
The island's indigenous Taino name is Ay Ay ("the river"). [3] Its indigenous Carib name is Cibuquiera ("the stony land"). [3] Its modern name, Saint Croix, is derived from the French Sainte-Croix, itself a translation of the Spanish name Isla de la Santa Cruz (meaning "island of the Holy Cross") given by Christopher Columbus in 1493. [4]
TV2 is a cable-only TV channel available on Innovative Cable TV in the United States Virgin Islands. TV2 picked up the CBS network on July 13, 2009, [1] just two weeks after WVXF, the area's previous CBS affiliate, switched from CBS to This TV. TV2's schedule consists entirely of local and syndicated programming.
The form of Virgin Islands Creole spoken on St. Croix, known as Crucian, is slightly different from that spoken on St. Thomas and St. John. [119] [120] Because the U.S. Virgin Islands are home to thousands of immigrants from across the Caribbean, Spanish and various French creole languages are also widely spoken.
The total population of the Virgin Islands is 147,778: 104,901 in the U.S. Virgin Islands, 31,758 in the British, and 11,119 in the Spanish. Roughly three-quarters of islanders are black in the British and U.S. Virgin Islands, while the majority of inhabitants in Culebra and Vieques are Puerto Rican of European descent, with a significant Afro ...