[Sly Fox]

Who knows? Perhaps we can work out a deal to get our games carried on this station after all.

Ministry Buys TV Station
posted 11:41 pm Mon August 11, 2008 - Lynchburg, VA

A religious group called Living Faith Ministries plans to buy a local TV channel here in Lynchburg. The group has agreed to pay about $5.3-million for WDRL-TV, pending approval by federal officials.

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[Fumblerooskies]

I am guessing the price tag got too high for LU???

[RagingTireFire]

Who knows? Perhaps we can work out a deal to get our games carried on this station after all.

Why would we want to? We're already going to be live on the local ABC affiliate.

[Sly Fox]

Only on their secondary digital channel. WDRL would have us on a lower tier in every cable system in the market.

The price was not too high for LU ... it was the bang for the buck and the extensive costs for upgrading the station that scared us away after Doc's passing.

[Sly Fox]

From the Roanoke fishwrap ...

Religious network wants TV station WDRL
The station is based in Roanoke and reaches Danville and Lynchburg audiences as well.

By Jeff Sturgeon
981-3251

An Abingdon-based religious television network plans to buy Roanoke TV station WDRL for nearly $5.3 million, according to a filing with the Federal Communications Commission.

And here is the part you may find interesting ...

WDRL has been in play before. Liberty University struck a deal in 2007 to buy the station for about $6 million. At the time, university officials saw the purchase as a means to recruit students and publicize university events.

But Liberty pulled out of the deal, saying its inspectors found numerous operational deficiencies and evidence of noncompliance with FCC regulations at WDRL. A judge ruled that Liberty had a reasonable basis for breaking the deal.

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[Fumblerooskies]

Thanks for the post, Sly...that makes sense, now.

[Sly Fox]

Bump

[olldflame]

Bump

May I ask..................why?

[Sly Fox]

Stay Tuned

[olldflame]

Stay Tuned

I thought Sly had grown out of his "cryptic phase"........................ guess not.

[Cider Jim]

Stay Tuned

Sly, is that another place where you're sending a resume'?

[PAmedic]

my guess is HMO bought him the station.

Happy Kwanza General Manager SLY

WHMO...nice

[rueful]

Praying Sly. Hope your lynchburg life works out.

also, if you need a place to live, im selling a 5 bedroom house cheap cheap

[Cider Jim]

Sly, I've got a dolly to help you unpack. And I always bring a big metal cooler of Gatorade for my moving crew.

[thepostman]

ahhhh Sly...some things never change..haha

[Cider Jim]

Sadly, I don't get the LU channel or WDRL on my DishNetwork, but I do get MASN.

[JeanW]

Stay Tuned

Inquiring minds want to know

[TDDance234]

Stay Tuned

Inquiring minds want to know

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[JeanW]

Thank you. I missed that. :

[Sly Fox]

In this case, the math isn't necessarily connected.

[Flamesfanva]

It just needs to become the new Liberty Channel so it will be carried on DirecTV as a local channel.

[Sly Fox]

In the "Whatever happened to ..." Department:

WDRL takes a station break
Because of a dispute over copyright payments, independent TV station WDRL has been off the air since late July. Some local fans are speaking out on behalf of the station's longtime owners.

By Ralph Berrier Jr.
981-3338


WDRL Studios


The Eleazers

The Rev. Floyd Davis was so well-known from his weekly religious program, "God's House Ministry," on WDRL-TV that somebody recognized him at the airport -- in Greensboro, N.C.

"I heard from so many people who would come up and say they watched us on WDRL," Davis said. "People who were incapacitated or people in nursing homes. WDRL helped us get our message out without being filtered or tampered with."

Now, however, that message is silent, along with all of WDRL's programming, which included televised church services, high school football games and "Laguna Beach."

The independent television station -- which broadcast over-the-air on channel 24 and was on cable systems in the Roanoke-Lynchburg market, the New River Valley and Southside Virginia -- was taken off the air in late July, after a federal judge in West Virginia upheld a $1.1 million judgment against the station's owners. The decision put eight WDRL employees out of work.

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[Flamesfanva]

I certainly know nothing about the broadcast industry, but if a husband and wife can start up a station that has a better coverage area than the Liberty Channel, why can't the Liberty Channel increase it's power to be carried as a local station on DirecTV and other local cable companies? Anyone?

[Sly Fox]

It is all about FCC licenses. Several times over the past few years the school has come close to buying this station for the exact purposes you mentioned. But there are a myriad of issues that have led to the school not purchasing it.

[rueful]

Does it mean laguna beach as in laguna beach the real oc that used to be on MTV? Talk about worlds most random programming schedule