[Fumblerooskies]

Not sure if this has been posted...and it does not really shed any more light on WHEN it will be effective:

Liberty buys WDRL TV station
by Erin Fitch, News Reporter

Students may be able to soon flip to Channel 24 and watch a live broadcast of Liberty’s events on its very own full-powered television station.

Liberty University has offered to purchase WDRL-TV, a former UPN affiliate based in Roanoke, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last year. The station will help promote Liberty in the region.

Its programming will include Liberty convocation services, theater productions and sporting events, as well as Sunday services from Thomas Road Baptist Church. Additional religious programs may also be broadcast, including those by Dr. Adrian Rogers and Dr. Charles Stanley.

The pending offer of $6 million must be approved by the Federal Communications Commission and the U.S. Bankruptcy Court before it can be finalized.

However, WDRL owner and general manager Melvin Eleazer said he is happy about the offer, according to his statements in the Roanoke Times. Vice-Chancellor Jerry Falwell, Jr. said his father and Eleazer became friends after their first meeting regarding the deal last summer.
“Mel has agreed to work with us for a few years after Liberty has purchased the station,” he said in an interview.

http://www.liberty.edu/academics/commun ... 9&CAID=194

[LUconn]

Here's what this station needs to be:

1. All LU broadcasts, obviously. Sports, convo, services, etc.
2. Get the comms department to start a few of their own shows if that's feasable. News, entertainment, whatever.
4. Instead of 1987 homemade crap that nobody wants to watch which is just a replacement filler for dead air, put real shows on that people might like to watch that are currently in reruns. Surely there have been some sitcoms over the last 20 years that people would like to watch, but are LU appropirate.

[kentuckywildcats]

i thought the weather channel was on channel 24?

[El Scorcho]

i thought the weather channel was on channel 24?

The Weather Channel is not a broadcast station. It is a cable station which Comcast puts on channel 24 of their cable network.

[Fumblerooskies]

DRL also has a digital signal...meaning LU may NEVER see WTLU move to Digital Channel 43:

http://www.rabbitears.info/listing.php?id=roa

[thepostman]

i thought the weather channel was on channel 24?

hahahahaha....dude you just showed how dumb you really are....

[flamesbball84]

what channel will it be on for people with cable tv?