WSLS-TV, the Glossary
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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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) »
- 1952 establishments in Virginia
- Graham Media Group
- 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
WROV-FM
WROV-FM (96.3 MHz) is a commercial FM radio station licensed to Martinsville, Virginia.
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.
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.
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.
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
- Bailey's Elementary School for the Arts and Sciences
- Blacksburg High School
- Carter Machinery
- General Dynamics
- Hermitage High School (Virginia)
- Lee Medical Building
- Manassas Air Force Station
- Meridian High School (Virginia)
- Mill Mountain Zoo
- Miss Virginia USA
- Norfolk Christian Schools
- Orange County High School
- Tysons Corner Communications Tower
- Virginia Association of Science Teachers
- Virginia Beach Volunteer Rescue Squad
- Virginia Square Shopping Center
- Virginians (singers)
- WEVA (AM)
- WRAP (Norfolk)
- WSLS-TV
- WTAR
- Wakefield High School (Arlington County, Virginia)
- Wilton House Museum
Graham Media Group
Television channels and stations established in 1952
- BBC One Scotland
- BBC Scotland
- BBC West
- CBC Television
- CBFT-DT
- CBLT-DT
- Canal 5 (Mexican TV channel)
- Corporación Estatal de Radio y Televisión
- Das Erste
- Deutscher Fernsehfunk
- ITU TV
- Ici Radio-Canada Télé
- KDBC-TV
- KGMB
- KHON-TV
- KHQ-TV
- KKTV
- KLBK-TV
- KPTV
- KTBC (TV)
- KUSA (TV)
- KWGN-TV
- La Voz Dominicana
- National Educational Television
- Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk
- TVP1
- Telewizja Polska
- WFPG-TV
- WKAB-TV
- WPMT
- WSBT-TV
- WSLS-TV
- XHGC-TDT
- XHTM-TDT
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.