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STATION CELEBRATES 4 DECADES OF PUBLIC TV
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It started on the morning of Aug. 1, 1967, with a station ID, a
segment called "New on 15" and then the deep-sea adventures of a tiny
submarine named Alvin.
But as WBRA (Channel 15) turns 40 this month, it now broadcasts
the full range of public television -- singing muppets, local shows
and the nuanced offerings of the Public Broadcasting Service -- to
Roanoke and Southwest Virginia.
Through four decades, WBRA has operated with the same mission: "To
create programming whose pri...
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BLUE RIDGE PUBLIC TV GOES DIGITAL NEXT WEEK
Roanoke Times & World News
; Blue Ridge Public Television will begin broadcasting digitally Monday, turning on its digital transmitters in Marion and Norton. Jack Neal, president and general manager, told Blue Ridge's board Friday at a meeting at New River Community College in Dublin that the Roanoke digital transmitter would
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HEAD OF BLUE RIDGE PUBLIC TV TO MOVE ON
Roanoke Times & World News
; Blue Ridge Public Television is losing its president and general manager to the public television station in Houston. Jack Neal will take over at HoustonPBS on Aug. 1, leaving behind the country's 68th largest media market for the 10th largest. Neal, who came to Roanoke in 2000, oversaw the
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BLUE RIDGE PUBLIC TV TO GET LINK TO WEB NETWORK
Roanoke Times & World News
; Schools across the state will be able to access Blue Ridge Public Television's stored programming and even create their own programs for broadcast on the station's new digital channels once a new initiative is in place. Blue Ridge Public Television's board on Friday approved a plan to link the
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WSLS, BLUE RIDGE PUBLIC TV MAKE CHANGES
Roanoke Times & World News
; ... been general sales manager of WKRG-TV, Media General's CBS affiliate in Mobile, Ala., since May 2003, according to a station news release. He also worked in national and local sales manager positions with WSLS for five years. Before joining Media General ...
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MCNEIL LED PUSH FOR PUBLIC TELEVISION HE WAS ON SCHOOL BOARD FROM 1964 TO 1976
Roanoke Times & World News
; More than 35 years ago, Roanoke schoolteachers put down their textbooks and sticks of chalk for an hour and turned on their television sets. It was Aug. 1, 1967, and Blue Ridge Public Television was on the air for the first time - thanks in part to the hard work and dedication of Sam McNeil. Under
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