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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 .
10 34 WSLS-TV: NBC: getTV on 10.2, MeTV on 10.3, Start TV on 10.4, Movies! on 10.5 Roanoke: Lynchburg: 13 7 WSET-TV: ABC: Stadium on 13.2, Comet on 13.3, TBD on 13.4 Roanoke: 15 3 WBRA-TV: PBS: BRPBS2/World on 15.2, PBS Kids on 15.3, Create on 15.4, Blue Ridge PBS ECHO on 15.5 Roanoke: Lynchburg: 21 21 WWCW: CW: Fox on 21.2 (WFXR 27.1), Laff on ...
This is a list of full-service television stations in the United States having call signs which begin with the letter W. Stations licensed to transmit under low-power specifications—ex., WOCV-CD, W16DQ-D and WIFR-LD—have not been included.
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. Channel 13 spent its first 30 years in a battle to ...
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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 ...
A partner FM station, 99.1 WSLS-FM, launched in 1947, largely simulcasting the AM station. WSLS-TV followed five years later on Channel 10. As network programming moved from radio to television, 610 WSLS switched to a full service, Country music format. In 1969, Park Communications purchased WSLS-AM-FM-TV. Due to FCC ownership restrictions ...
WSLS-FM was the first FM station in the region, going on the air a year ahead of what is today 94.9 WSLC-FM. Through its early years, WSLS-FM mostly simulcast WSLS, an affiliate of the ABC Radio Network. In 1952, a TV station was added, Channel 10 WSLS-TV. Because the TV station was an NBC affiliate, WSLS-AM-FM switched to NBC Radio affiliation.