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WSLC
WSLC-FM (94.9 MHz) is a commercial radio station licensed to Roanoke, Virginia and serving the New River Valley. WSLC-FM is owned and operated by Mel Wheeler, Inc. It airs a country music radio format, using the moniker "94.9 Star Country." WSLC-FM's studios and offices are on Electric Road in Roanoke. The transmitter is off Honeysuckle Road in Bent Mountain. The station is powered at 100,000 watts effective radiated power (ERP) on a tower 1962 feet in height above average terrain (HAAT). The Class C signal can be heard over much of Southwest Virginia and into North Carolina and West Virginia. On occasion, WSLC-FM can be picked up more than 200 miles away. History WDBJ-FM On July 11, 1948, the station signed on as WDBJ-FM. It was owned by the Times World Corporation, publisher of '' The Roanoke Times-World'', which in 1955 started Channel 7 WDBJ-TV. At first, WDBJ-FM simulcast its AM counterpart, AM 960 WDBJ (now WFIR). In the early 1960s, WDBJ-FM was separately progra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WPLY (AM)
WPLY (610 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Roanoke, Virginia, and serving Southwest Virginia and the New River Valley. WPLY simulcasts a sports radio format with WPLI 1390 AM in Lynchburg. Both stations are owned and operated by Mel Wheeler, Inc. Most programming is supplied by Fox Sports Radio. By day, WPLY is powered at 5,000 watts. But at night, when radio waves travel farther, it reduces power to 1,000 watts to protect other stations on 610 AM. WPLY has a directional antenna, using a five-tower array. The transmitter is at the end of Newman Drive in Salem. Programming is also heard on 175 watt FM translator W266CY at 101.1 MHz in Roanoke. History WSLC Country Just before noon on , the station signed on. The original call sign was WSLS. During the "Golden Age of Radio," the station carried programs from the NBC Blue Network, dramas, comedies, news, sports, soap operas, game shows and big band broadcasts. (The Blue Network later became ABC.) A partne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WSLQ
WSLQ (99.1 FM "Q99") is a commercial radio station licensed to Roanoke, Virginia, serving the New River Valley and Southwest Virginia. The station airs an adult contemporary radio format and is owned and operated by Mel Wheeler, Inc. The studios and offices are on Electric Road in Roanoke. WSLQ's transmitter is off Honeysuckle Road in Bent Mountain. WSLQ has one of the largest coverage areas of all FM radio stations in the United States. Its effective radiated power (ERP) is 200,000 watts, broadcasting from a tower at 1962 feet in height above average terrain (HAAT). The Class C signal can be heard into West Virginia and North Carolina, and at times is picked up more than 200 miles away. The station was established in 1947, grandfathered at unusually high wattage before current Federal Communications Commission rules on FM power were set. Today, the top allowable power for FM stations is 100,000 watts. History On November 1, 1947, the station first signed on as WSLS-FM. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roanoke, Virginia
Roanoke ( ) is an independent city in the U.S. state of Virginia. At the 2020 census, the population was 100,011, making it the 8th most populous city in the Commonwealth of Virginia and the largest city in Virginia west of Richmond. It is located in the Roanoke Valley of the Roanoke Region of Virginia. Roanoke is the largest municipality in Southwest Virginia, and is the principal municipality of the Roanoke Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), which had a 2020 population of 315,251. It is composed of the independent cities of Roanoke and Salem, and Botetourt, Craig, Franklin, and Roanoke counties. Bisected by the Roanoke River, Roanoke is the commercial and cultural hub of much of Southwest Virginia and portions of Southern West Virginia. History Timeline * 1835 - Town of Gainesborough incorporated. * 1838 - Roanoke County created. * 1852 - Big Lick Depot built near Gainesborough; Virginia & Tennessee Railroad begins operating. * 1865 - April: Big Lick settlement sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WVBE-FM
WVBE-FM (100.1 MHz) is an Urban Adult Contemporary formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Lynchburg, Virginia, serving Metro Lynchburg. WVBE-FM is owned and operated by Mel Wheeler, Inc.. and is simulcast on WVBB 97.7 FM in Elliston-Lafayette, Virginia. A simulcast was offered on 610 AM in Roanoke, Virginia until 2016 when it flipped to sports. History WVBE-FM 100.1 began its history in 1948 as WWOD-FM, originally at 940 watts. It had a sister station on 1390, WWOD, now WPLI. WWOD was the second station to go on in Lynchburg after WLVA. WWOD-FM was religious until it became WKZZ on May 12, 1979 and carried a country format until April 1, 1984, when it became a locally programmed CHR format until 1991. On November 21, 1991, the station was purchased by Aylett Coleman of Roanoke and began a simulcast with CHR formatted WXLK WXLK (92.3 MHz "K92") is a commercial FM radio station licensed to Roanoke, Virginia, serving the New River Valley and Southwest Virginia. WX ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WLNI
WLNI (105.9 FM) is a News/Talk formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Lynchburg, Virginia, serving Metro Lynchburg. WLNI is owned by James River Media, LLC. Programming WLNI programming consists mostly of network programming such as Coast to Coast AM, Glenn Beck, Dan Bongino and Sean Hannity. WLNI also airs Virginia Tech Virginia Tech (formally the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and informally VT, or VPI) is a Public university, public Land-grant college, land-grant research university with its main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia. It also ... football and basketball. References External links * * LNI Talk radio stations in the United States Radio stations established in 1994 1994 establishments in Virginia {{Virginia-radio-station-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Roanoke Times
''The Roanoke Times'' is the primary newspaper in Southwestern Virginia and is based in Roanoke, Virginia, United States. It is published by Lee Enterprises. In addition to its headquarters in Roanoke, it maintains a bureau in Christiansburg, covering the eastern New River Valley and Virginia Tech. According to the 2011 Scarborough “Ranker Report,” ''The Roanoke Times'' ranks fifth in the country in terms of percentage of adults reading a newspaper on weekdays in that newspaper's coverage area. History The ''Roanoke Daily Times'' began publication in 1886. The paper's original owner, M. H. Claytor, eventually added a companion evening newspaper, ''The Roanoke Evening News''. In 1909, he sold the paper to a group headed by banker J. B. Fishburn. The Fishburn group bought the ''Roanoke Evening World'' in 1913, merging it with the ''Evening News'' and changing its name to the ''Roanoke World-News''. At the same time, Times-World Corporation was formed as the owner of both ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lynchburg, Virginia
Lynchburg is an independent city (United States), independent city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. First settled in 1757 by ferry owner John Lynch (1740–1820), John Lynch, the city's population was 79,009 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Located in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains along the banks of the James River, Lynchburg is known as the "City of Seven Hills" or the "Hill City". In the 1860s, Lynchburg was the only city in Virginia that was not recaptured by the Union (American Civil War), Union before the end of the American Civil War. Lynchburg lies at the center of a wider Lynchburg metropolitan area, metropolitan area close to the geographic center of Virginia. It is the fifth-largest Metropolitan statistical area, MSA in Virginia, with a population of 261,593. It is the site of several institutions of higher education, including Virginia University of Lynchburg, Randolph College, University of L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WXLK
WXLK (92.3 MHz "K92") is a commercial FM radio station licensed to Roanoke, Virginia, serving the New River Valley and Southwest Virginia. WXLK airs a Top 40 (CHR) radio format and is owned and operated by Mel Wheeler, Inc. WXLK's studios and offices are on Electric Road in Roanoke. Its transmitter is on Honeysuckle Road in Bent Mountain. WXLK broadcasts in the HD Radio format. The station runs at 100,000 watts effective radiated power (ERP) on a tower 1,985 feet in height above average terrain (HAAT). The Class C station can be heard into North Carolina and West Virginia. At times it can be picked up more than 200 miles away. History On December 17, 1960, the station first signed on as WLRJ. It was owned by Lee Hartman & Sons, a company headquartered in Roanoke that still provides audio and video services, although it no longer owns a radio station. WLRJ ran at only 2,800 watts, a fraction of its current power. The station specialized in what it called "fine music" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WDBJ-TV
WDBJ (channel 7) is a television station licensed to Roanoke, Virginia, United States, serving as the CBS affiliate for the Roanoke– Lynchburg market. It is owned by Gray Television alongside Danville-licensed MyNetworkTV affiliate WZBJ, channel 24 (and its Lynchburg-licensed Class A translator WZBJ-CD, channel 19). WDBJ and WZBJ share studios on Hershberger Road in northwest Roanoke; through a channel sharing agreement, the two stations transmit using WDBJ's spectrum from an antenna on Poor Mountain in Roanoke County. History Early history WDBJ-TV first signed on the air on October 3, 1955. 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 Network. WDBJ-TV was the third television station to sign-on from Roanoke, after NBC affiliate W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WFIR
WFIR (960 kHz "WFIR 960 AM - 107.3 FM") is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Roanoke, Virginia and serving the Roanoke Valley. It is owned and operated by Mel Wheeler, Inc. and airs a News/Talk radio format. WFIR broadcasts at 10,000 watts non-directional by day. But at night, to avoid interfering with other stations on AM 960, it reduces power to 5000 watts and uses a directional antenna. WFIR's studios and offices are on Electric Road in Roanoke. The AM transmitter is off Brandon Avenue SW. The transmitter for FM translator W297BC 107.3 is off Catawba Valley Drive. Local news and talk programs air in weekday morning and afternoon drive times, with syndicated shows heard the rest of day, including Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Dave Ramsey, Mark Levin, Clyde Lewis and Coast to Coast AM with George Noory. Weekends feature shows on money, religion, law, computers, guns, home repair and gardening. Syndicated weekend hosts include Kim Komando, Leo Laporte and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Transmitter
In electronics and telecommunications, a radio transmitter or just transmitter is an electronic device which produces radio waves with an antenna (radio), antenna. The transmitter itself generates a radio frequency alternating current, which is applied to the Antenna (radio), antenna. When excited by this alternating current, the antenna radiates radio waves. Transmitters are necessary component parts of all electronic devices that communicate by radio communication, radio, such as radio broadcasting, radio and television broadcasting stations, cell phones, walkie-talkies, Wireless LAN, wireless computer networks, Bluetooth enabled devices, garage door openers, two-way radios in aircraft, ships, spacecraft, radar sets and navigational beacons. The term ''transmitter'' is usually limited to equipment that generates radio waves for Communication engineering, communication purposes; or radiolocation, such as radar and navigational transmitters. Generators of radio waves for heatin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New River Valley
The New River Valley is a region along the New River in Southwest Virginia in the United States. It is usually defined as the counties of Montgomery (including the towns of Blacksburg and Christiansburg), Pulaski, Floyd, and Giles and the independent city of Radford, which are all located in the New River watershed. However, in Virginia, the New River also flows through Wythe, Carroll, and Grayson Counties, and its physical watershed includes parts of Tazewell and Bland Counties, and small portions of Smyth and Craig Counties. Outside of Virginia, the New River continues upstream into North Carolina and downstream into West Virginia. Part of the Great Appalachian Valley, it became a contested frontier area in colonial times, and continued during the westward expansion of the United States. The first European to explore the valley was Abraham Wood of Fort Henry in 1671 and settlements began to develop in the 18th century. A branch of the Great Wagon Road led through ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
