WDBJ
 
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Roanoke - Lynchburg, Virginia United States |
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| City | Roanoke, Virginia |
| Branding | WDBJ 7 My 19 (on DT2) |
| Slogan | Your Hometown News Leader |
| Channels |
Digital: 18 (UHF) Virtual: 7 (PSIP) |
| Subchannels | 7.1 CBS 7.2 MyNetworkTV 7.3 Decades |
| Translators | W04AG-D 4 Garden City, VA |
| Affiliations | CBS |
| Owner |
Gray Television (Gray Television Licensee, LLC) |
| Founded | March 31, 1955 |
| First air date | October 3, 1955 |
| Call letters' meaning | derived from former sister station WDBJ radio (now WFIR) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 7 (VHF, 1955–2009) |
| Transmitter power | 675 kW |
| Height | 606 m (1,988 ft) |
| Facility ID | 71329 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 37°11′42.5″N 80°9′23″W / 37.195139°N 80.15639°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www |
WDBJ, channel 7, is a CBS-affiliated television station located in Roanoke, Virginia, United States. WDBJ is owned by Gray Television, and maintains studio facilities on Hershberger Road in northwest Roanoke; its transmitter is located on Poor Mountain in Roanoke County.
WDBJ-TV first signed on the air on October 3, 1955, originally owned by the Times-World Corporation, publishers of the Roanoke Times and Roanoke World-News, and operators of 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 WSLS-TV (channel 10) and WROV-TV (channel 27, frequency later occupied by WFXR), which operated as an independent station from February to July 1953. Before channel 7 signed on, CBS programming had been carried part-time on Lynchburg-based WLVA-TV (channel 13, now WSET-TV). During the late 1950s, WDBJ was also briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network.
For close to two years, the station's construction permit was heavily contested between Times-World and the owners of WROV-TV, who relinquished their UHF license (the station went dark in July 1953) in order to battle for channel 7. The two-way contest virtually ended in January 1955, when the WROV group relinquished their application and sold their television assets to WDBJ. The Times-World Corp. would be awarded the channel 7 construction permit two months later.
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