When WJPR signed on its digital signal in April 2002, that station only carried programming from "WBVA" on its sole main channel. In 1996, WFXR/WJPR entered into a news share agreement with NBC affiliate WSLS-TV (channel 10), allowing the station to produce a 10:00 p.m. newscast for the stations. Areas such as Blacksburg got only a Grade B signal, and it could not be seen at all in much of the area. Would you like Wikipedia to always look as professional and up-to-date? Even though WWCW has a digital signal of its own, the signal's full-powered broadcasting radius does not cover much of the western portion of the Roanoke–Lynchburg market, including the New River Valley. Talk:WFXR. Television channels and stations established in 1986, https://the-alternate-tv.fandom.com/wiki/WFXR?oldid=1122. When WJPR signed on its digital signal in April 2002, that station only carried programming from "WBVA" on its sole main channel. WFXR operates a full-time satellite, WWCW in Lynchburg, Virginia. D&D Beyond Congratulations on this excellent venture… what a great idea! WWCW, virtual channel 21 (UHF digital channel 20), is a CW-affiliated television station licensed to Lynchburg, Virginia, United States. There is no separate website for WWCW; instead, it is integrated with that of sister station WFXR. Plans were still underway by this time to separate WFXR and WJPR's programming schedules, with the intent to move the "WB 5" intellectual unit and WBVA-TV call letters to WJPR in October 2001, leaving WFXR as a sole Fox affiliate. It will enhance any encyclopedic page you visit with the magic of the WIKI 2 technology. The station's digital signal is multiplexed: WWCW broadcasts high definition programming content on its main channel in 720p, rather than The CW's native 1080i format. On January 24, 2006, the Warner Bros. Entertainment unit of Time Warner and CBS Corporation announced that the two companies would shut down The WB and UPN and combine the networks' respective programming to create a new "fifth" network called The CW. Meanwhile, WJPR was hampered by signal issues in the western portion of the market. In August 2007, WSLS began broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition, becoming the market's first Big Three network affiliate to upgrade its newscasts to the format; WFXR's nightly prime time show was included in the upgrade. To reflect this, the fictional WBVA calls were changed to "WCW5-TV" in June 2006. The station transmits from Thaxton Mountain with an effective radiated power of 916,000 watts. Television station in Virginia, United States. Southwestern Virginia is very mountainous and the difficulties faced by UHF stations at the time due to the lack of television sets manufactured with built-in UHF tuners (which was not made a requirement until the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) passed the All-Channel Receiver Act in 1961) were magnified by the area's rugged terrain. It will enhance any encyclopedic page you visit with the magic of the WIKI 2 technology.