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Index WSLS-TV

WSLS-TV (channel 10) is a television station licensed to Roanoke, Virginia, United States, serving the Roanoke–Lynchburg market as an affiliate of NBC.[1]

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  1. 63 relations: Amherst County, Virginia, Aspect ratio (image), Bedford County, Virginia, Bedford, Virginia, Campbell County, Virginia, CBS, CBS Media Ventures, Cox Communications, Digital television transition in the United States, Display resolution, Federal Communications Commission, Fox Broadcasting Company, Fullscreen (aspect ratio), Get (TV network), Graham Media Group, Halifax County, Virginia, Henry County, Virginia, High-definition television, Jacksonville, Florida, Limited liability company, Lynchburg, Virginia, Martinsville, Virginia, Media General, Media market, MeTV, Milton Grant, Movies!, Multiplex (television), NBC, NBCUniversal Syndication Studios, Nelson S. Bond, Nexstar Media Group, Norfolk, Virginia, Pittsylvania County, Virginia, Poor Mountain, Richmond, Virginia, Roanoke County, Virginia, Roanoke, Virginia, Roy H. Park, Shenandoah Life Insurance Company, Start TV, Tampa, Florida, Test card, The Roanoke Times, Ultra high frequency, Very high frequency, Virtual channel, WCWJ, WDBJ, WFIR, ... Expand index (13 more) »

  2. 1952 establishments in Virginia
  3. Graham Media Group
  4. Television channels and stations established in 1952

Amherst County, Virginia

Amherst County is a county, located in the Piedmont region and near the center of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States.

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Aspect ratio (image)

The aspect ratio of an image is the ratio of its width to its height.

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Bedford County, Virginia

Bedford County is a United States county located in the Piedmont region of the Commonwealth of Virginia.

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Bedford, Virginia

Bedford is an incorporated town and former independent city located within Bedford County in the U.S. state of Virginia.

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Campbell County, Virginia

Campbell County is a United States county situated in the south central part of the Commonwealth of Virginia.

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CBS

CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS (an abbreviation of its original name, Columbia Broadcasting System), is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainment Group division of Paramount Global and is one of the company's three flagship subsidiaries, along with namesake Paramount Pictures and MTV.

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CBS Media Ventures, Inc. (formerly CBS Paramount Domestic Television and CBS Television Distribution) is the television broadcast syndication arm of CBS Studios, a division of the CBS Entertainment Group, in turn a division of Paramount Global, founded on 2006 by CBS Corporation from a merger of CBS Paramount Domestic Television and King World Productions.

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Cox Communications

Cox Communications, Inc. (also known as Cox Cable and formerly Cox Broadcasting Corporation, Dimension Cable Services and Times-Mirror Cable) is an American digital cable television provider, telecommunications and home automation services.

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Digital television transition in the United States

The digital transition in the United States was the switchover from analog to exclusively digital broadcasting of terrestrial television programming.

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Display resolution

The display resolution or display modes of a digital television, computer monitor, or other display device is the number of distinct pixels in each dimension that can be displayed.

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Federal Communications Commission

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States government that regulates communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable across the United States.

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Fox Broadcasting Company

Fox Broadcasting Company, LLC, commonly known simply as Fox and stylized in all caps, is an American commercial broadcast television network owned by the Fox Entertainment division of Fox Corporation, headquartered at 1211 Avenue of the Americas in Midtown Manhattan.

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Fullscreen (aspect ratio)

Fullscreen (or full screen) refers to the 4:3 (1.:1) aspect ratio of early standard television screens and computer monitors.

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Get (TV network)

Get ("great entertainment television", stylized as get. since 2023, and formerly stylized as getTV) is an American digital multicast television network owned by the network television division of Sony Pictures Television.

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Graham Media Group (formerly Post-Newsweek Stations) is the television broadcasting subsidiary of the Graham Holdings Company.

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Halifax County, Virginia

Halifax County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

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Henry County, Virginia

Henry County is a county located in the U.S. state of Virginia.

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High-definition television

High-definition television (HDTV) describes a television or video system which provides a substantially higher image resolution than the previous generation of technologies.

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Jacksonville, Florida

Jacksonville is the most populous city proper in the U.S. state of Florida, located on the Atlantic coast of northeastern Florida.

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Limited liability company

A limited liability company (LLC) is the United States-specific form of a private limited company.

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Lynchburg, Virginia

Lynchburg is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States.

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Martinsville, Virginia

Martinsville is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States.

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Media General was an American media company based in Richmond, Virginia. WSLS-TV and media General are 2017 mergers and acquisitions.

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A media market, broadcast market, media region, designated market area (DMA), television market area, or simply market is a region where the population can receive the same (or similar) television and radio station offerings, and may also include other types of media such as newspapers and internet content.

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MeTV

MeTV, an acronym for Memorable Entertainment Television, is an American broadcast television network owned by Weigel Broadcasting.

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Milton Grant

Milton Grant (May 13, 1923 – April 28, 2007) was an American disc jockey and owner of television stations.

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Movies!

Movies! (also known as simply M!) is an American free-to-air television network, owned by Popcorn Entertainment, LLC, a joint venture between Weigel Broadcasting and the Fox Television Stations subsidiary of Fox Corporation.

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Multiplex (television)

A multiplex or mux, also known as a bouquet, is a grouping of program services as interleaved data packets for broadcast over a network or modulated multiplexed medium, particularly terrestrial broadcasting.

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NBC

The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the NBC Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

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NBCUniversal Syndication Studios

NBCUniversal Syndication Studios (a.k.a. NUSS), formerly known as NBCUniversal Television Distribution (a.k.a. NUTD), Universal Domestic Television, Studios USA Television Distribution and MCA TV, is the television syndication division of NBCUniversal, a division of Comcast, in the United States.

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Nelson S. Bond

Nelson Slade Bond (November 23, 1908 – November 4, 2006) was an American writer.

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Nexstar Media Group, Inc. is an American publicly traded media company with headquarters in Irving, Texas, Midtown Manhattan, and Chicago.

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Norfolk, Virginia

Norfolk is an independent city in Virginia, United States.

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Pittsylvania County, Virginia

Pittsylvania County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

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Poor Mountain

Poor Mountain is a ridge of high peaks located in Roanoke County, Virginia and Montgomery County, Virginia.

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Richmond, Virginia

Richmond is the capital city of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States.

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Roanoke County, Virginia

Roanoke County is a county in the U.S. state of the Commonwealth of Virginia.

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Roanoke, Virginia

Roanoke is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States.

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Roy H. Park

Roy Hampton Park (15 September 1910 – 25 October 1993) was an American entrepreneur and media mogul.

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Shenandoah Life Insurance Company

The Shenandoah Life Insurance Company is an insurance company based in Roanoke, Virginia, United States.

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Start TV

Start TV is an American free-to-air television network owned as a joint venture between Weigel Broadcasting and the CBS News and Stations subsidiary of Paramount Global.

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Tampa, Florida

Tampa is a city on the Gulf Coast of the U.S. state of Florida.

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Test card

A test card, also known as a test pattern or start-up/closedown test, is a television test signal, typically broadcast at times when the transmitter is active but no program is being broadcast (often at sign-on and sign-off).

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The Roanoke Times

The Roanoke Times is the primary newspaper in Southwestern Virginia and is based in Roanoke, Virginia, United States.

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Ultra high frequency

Ultra high frequency (UHF) is the ITU designation for radio frequencies in the range between 300 megahertz (MHz) and 3 gigahertz (GHz), also known as the decimetre band as the wavelengths range from one meter to one tenth of a meter (one decimeter).

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Very high frequency

Very high frequency (VHF) is the ITU designation for the range of radio frequency electromagnetic waves (radio waves) from 30 to 300 megahertz (MHz), with corresponding wavelengths of ten meters to one meter.

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Virtual channel

In most telecommunications organizations, a virtual channel is a method of remapping the program number as used in H.222 Program Association Tables and Program Mapping Tables to a channel number that can be entered as digits on a receiver's remote control.

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WCWJ

WCWJ (channel 17) is a television station in Jacksonville, Florida, United States, affiliated with The CW. WSLS-TV and WCWJ are 2017 mergers and acquisitions, get (TV network) affiliates, Graham Media Group and Movies! affiliates.

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WDBJ

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 24).

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WFIR

WFIR (960 AM, "WFIR 960 AM 94.5 FM 107.3 FM") is a commercial radio station licensed to Roanoke, Virginia, and serving the Roanoke Valley.

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WFLA-TV

WFLA-TV (channel 8) is a television station licensed to Tampa, Florida, United States, serving as the NBC affiliate for the Tampa Bay area. WSLS-TV and WFLA-TV are NBC affiliates.

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WFXR

WFXR (channel 27) is a television station licensed to Roanoke, Virginia, United States, serving as the Fox affiliate for the Roanoke–Lynchburg market.

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WPLY (AM)

WPLY (610 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Roanoke, Virginia, and serving Southwest Virginia and the New River Valley.

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WROV-FM

WROV-FM (96.3 MHz) is a commercial FM radio station licensed to Martinsville, Virginia.

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WSET-TV

WSET-TV (channel 13) is a television station licensed to Lynchburg, Virginia, United States, serving as the ABC affiliate for the Roanoke–Lynchburg market.

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WSLQ

WSLQ (99.1 FM "Q99") is a commercial radio station licensed to Roanoke, Virginia, serving the New River Valley and Southwest Virginia.

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WTKR

WTKR (channel 3) is a television station licensed to Norfolk, Virginia, United States, serving the Hampton Roads area as an affiliate of CBS.

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WTVR-TV

WTVR-TV (channel 6) is a television station in Richmond, Virginia, United States, affiliated with CBS and owned by the E. W. Scripps Company.

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WWCW

WWCW (channel 21) is a television station licensed to Lynchburg, Virginia, United States, serving as the CW outlet for the Roanoke–Lynchburg market.

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1080i

1080i (also known as BT.709) is a combination of frame resolution and scan type.

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16:9 aspect ratio

16:9 is a widescreen aspect ratio with a width of 16 units and height of 9 units.

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20th Television

20th Television (formerly known as TCF Television Productions, 20th Century-Fox Television, and 20th Century Fox Television) is an American television production company which is a division of Disney Television Studios, part of the Disney Entertainment division of The Walt Disney Company.

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480i

480i is the video mode used for standard-definition digital video in the Caribbean, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Philippines, Myanmar, Western Sahara, and most of the Americas (with the exception of Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay).

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See also

1952 establishments in Virginia

Graham Media Group

Television channels and stations established in 1952

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WSLS-TV

Also known as NBC 10 Roanoke, NBC Lynchburg, NBC Roanoke, WSLS, WSLS 10, WSLS-10.

, WFLA-TV, WFXR, WPLY (AM), WROV-FM, WSET-TV, WSLQ, WTKR, WTVR-TV, WWCW, 1080i, 16:9 aspect ratio, 20th Television, 480i.