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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 .
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 ...
WFXR is the third station to occupy channel 27 in Roanoke. After seven years of battles over the permit and construction, it began broadcasting on November 13, 1986, as WVFT, the market's second new general-entertainment independent station in twelve months.
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 ...
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 ...
TV stations formerly owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group; City of license / Market Station Channel Years owned Current ownership status Anniston, AL: WJSU-TV [ρ] 40: 2014–2015 [o] WGWW; Howard Stirk Holdings: Tuscaloosa, AL: WCFT-TV [ρ] 33: 2014–2015 [o] WSES; Howard Stirk Holdings Stockton–Sacramento, CA: KOVR: 13: 1997–2005: CBS News ...
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On the morning of August 26, 2015, news reporter Alison Parker and photojournalist Adam Ward, both employees of CBS affiliate WDBJ in Roanoke, Virginia, United States, were fatally shot while conducting a live television interview near Smith Mountain Lake in Moneta.