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WSET-TV (channel 13) is a television station licensed to Lynchburg, Virginia, United States, serving as the ABC affiliate for the Roanoke–Lynchburg market. The station is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group , and has studios on Langhorne Road in Lynchburg; its transmitter is located atop Thaxton Mountain, near Thaxton, Virginia .
WDBJ-TV first signed on the air on October 3, 1955. [5] [6] It was owned by the Times-World Corporation, publishers of the Roanoke Times and Roanoke World-News, alongside WDBJ radio (960 AM, now WFIR; and 94.9 FM, now WSLC-FM). Channel 7 has been a CBS affiliate since its sign-on, owing to WDBJ radio's longtime affiliation with the CBS Radio ...
Later occupying the channel 27 frequency was WRFT-TV/WRLU, which operated as the market's secondary ABC affiliate from 1966 to 1974 [8] [9] and again from 1974 to 1975. [10] At the time, the area's primary ABC affiliate, WLVA-TV (channel 13, now WSET-TV) in Lynchburg, provided only marginal signal coverage in Roanoke. [11]
He later took a position at a UnitedHealthcare call center in Roanoke, where he worked until November 2014. Reporter Alison Parker, 24, and photojournalist Adam Ward, 27, were declared dead at the ...
Get the Roanoke, VA local weather forecast by the hour and the next 10 days. ... Top weather news for Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025: The Northeast is being slammed by a deadly winter storm that brought ...
merged with WVEC-TV: 27: WROV-TV: Roanoke: February 15, 1953 – July 13, 1953: Independent: financial distress 27: WRFT-TV WRLU-TV: Roanoke: March 4, 1966 – April 30, 1974 September 7, 1974–February 11, 1975: ABC: competition from WLVA-TV [1] 29: WOTV: Richmond: 1953–1957 (CP) construction permit canceled 29: WINA-TV: Charlottesville ...
Get the Roanoke, VA local weather forecast by the hour and the next 10 days. ... The Weather Channel 2 hours ago On Today's Date: America's Greatest Cold Outbreak ... CBS News 17 hours ago
Southwestern Virginia had previously been served by two retransmitters of Roanoke's WBRA-TV Blue Ridge PBS: WSVN-TV (later known as WSBN-TV) in Norton and WMSY-TV in Marion. The two stations were shut down in 2013 due to Virginia state budget cuts to public television, but returned in 2014 (on the two stations and WBRA-DT2) as Southwest ...