In the present paper, we introduce a new family of sampling operators, so-called “modified sampling operators”, by taking a function ρ\\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \\usepackage{amsmath} \\usepackage{wasysym} \\usepackage{amsfonts} \\usepackage{amssymb} \\usepackage{amsbsy} \\usepackage{mathrsfs} \\usepackage{upgreek} \\setlength{\\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \\begin{document}$$\\rho $$\\end{document} that satisfies the suitable conditions, and we study pointwise and uniform convergence of the family of newly introduced operators. We give the rate of convergence of the family of operators via classical modulus of continuity. We also obtain an asymptotic formula in the sense of Voronovskaja. Moreover, we investigate the approximation properties of modified sampling operators in weighted spaces of continuous functions characterized by ρ\\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \\usepackage{amsmath} \\usepackage{wasysym} \\usepackage{amsfonts} \\usepackage{amssymb} \\usepackage{amsbsy} \\usepackage{mathrsfs} \\usepackage{upgreek} \\setlength{\\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \\begin{document}$$\\rho $$\\end{document} function. Finally, we present examples of some kernels that satisfy the appropriate assumptions. At the end, we present some graphical and numerical representations by comparing the modified sampling operators and the classical sampling operators.