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WSLS-TV (channel 10) is a television station licensed to Roanoke, Virginia, United States, serving the Roanoke–Lynchburg market as an affiliate of NBC.Owned by Graham Media Group, the station maintains studios on Fifth Street in Roanoke, and its transmitter is located on Poor Mountain in Roanoke County.
Since Roanoke was already served by NBC affiliate WSLS-TV (channel 10), WLVA-TV opted to become a primary ABC affiliate—Virginia's first, and the longest-tenured south of Washington, D.C. WLVA-TV and WSLS-TV split CBS programming until WDBJ-TV (channel 7) signed on from Roanoke in 1955.
The formation of the news department and concurrent move to the Valleypointe facility resulted in the hiring of 33 news and production employees to WFXR's staff, in addition to the Nexstar employees that had already been contributing to the station's newscasts (including 10 p.m. co-anchor Becky Freemal and morning anchor Tara Wheeler). [55] [56]
UPDATE 9/30 5:21 P.M. ROANOKE, Va. (WFXR) – According to RFD, crews were dispatched to a building on the 200 block of Jefferson Street in Downtown Roanoke. Engine 1 arrived on the scene to find ...
Newport News: November 21, 1986 – January 9, 1989 (CP) construction permit expired [5] 60: WZZW: Roanoke: January 6, 1986 – May 10, 1988 (CP) construction permit ...
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WDBJ-TV was the third television station to sign-on from Roanoke, after NBC affiliate WSLS-TV (channel 10) and WROV-TV (channel 27, frequency later occupied by WFXR), which operated as an independent station from February to July 1953.
The Roanoke Star and Cardinal News are independent digital newspapers that have sought to fill the local news coverage gap resulting from the purchase of The Roanoke Times by an out-of-state publisher and its subsequent reduction in staff. [246] [247] The weekly Roanoke Tribune covers the city's African-American community. [248]