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Full-power digital · channel 30 · ROANOKE, VA
| Facility ID | 71329 |
| Licence status | Licensed and on air (code LIC) |
| Licensee | GRAY TELEVISION LICENSEE, LLC |
| Community of licence | ROANOKE, VA
The town the station is legally obliged to serve. This is a regulatory obligation, not the transmitter location — the two are often tens of miles apart. |
| Transmitter | 37.19519, -80.15614 |
| Effective radiated power | 1000 kW |
| Antenna height (HAAT) | 1182.2 m above average terrain · non-directional |
Source: FCC TV Query, a US Government work in the public domain. Observed 2026-09-23.
Whether this transmitter reaches a given address depends on the terrain between the two points, not just the distance. Ask for a specific spot:
GET /api/receivable?lat=&lon=
The answer grades the path geometry from the USGS 10 m elevation model and says how far into an obstruction it is. It ranks paths; it does not promise a picture.
| Website | https://www.wdbj7.com/ |
| AI crawlers blocked by name | 12
|
Publishes /llms.txt | no |
Publishes /.well-known/ai | no |
| Structured data on the homepage | yes |
Checked 2026-09-11 by fetching robots.txt
and the homepage once each. A robots.txt entry is evidence that a line exists in a file. It is not
evidence of intent, and there are sound reasons a publisher may choose it.
| callsign | ch | class | licensee |
|---|---|---|---|
| W05AA-D | 5 | LPT | WSET LICENSEE, LLC |
| WBRA-TV | 13 | DTV | BLUE RIDGE PUBLIC TELEVISION, INC. |
| W18FL-D | 18 | LPD | |
| W18FB-D | 18 | LPD | LOWCOUNTRY 34 MEDIA, LLC |
| W24GB-D | 24 | LPD | |
| W26FT-D | 26 | LPD | |
| WPXR-TV | 27 | DTV | ION MEDIA LICENSE COMPANY, LLC |
| facility 795513 | 28 | LPD | |
| W29GR-D | 29 | LPD | |
| W32EW-D | 32 | LPD | VENTANA TELEVISION, INC. |
| WSLS-TV | 34 | DTV | GRAHAM MEDIA GROUP, VIRGINIA, LLC |
| WFXR | 36 | DTV | NEXSTAR MEDIA INC. |
This page is also available as data, and so is everything behind it.
/api/station-readiness/WDBJ | this section, as JSON |
/api/outlets?q=WDBJ | the facility record |
POST /mcp | MCP, nine tools, no key required |
A Rootz dataset. Sources and licences at /api/sources. Corrections: the underlying records come from the FCC and Wikidata, and a fix there flows through here on the next daily run.