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WHRO-TV

Full-power digital · channel 31 · HAMPTON-NORFOLK, VA

What the FCC says

Facility ID25932
Licence statusLicensed and on air (code LIC)
LicenseeHAMPTON ROADS EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION, INC.
Community of licenceHAMPTON-NORFOLK, 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.
Transmitter36.80883, -76.50314
Effective radiated power1000 kW
Antenna height (HAAT)381.3 m above average terrain · non-directional

Source: FCC TV Query, a US Government work in the public domain. Observed 2026-09-23.

Can you receive it?

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.

Can an assistant read this station's website?

Websitehttp://www.whro.org/
AI crawlers blocked by namenone
Publishes /llms.txtno
Publishes /.well-known/aino
Structured data on the homepageyes

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.

For an assistant

This page is also available as data, and so is everything behind it.

/api/station-readiness/WHRO-TVthis section, as JSON
/api/outlets?q=WHRO-TVthe facility record
POST /mcpMCP, 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.