WBRA-TV
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Blue Ridge PBS is the PBS member station for western Virginia. It serves the Roanoke/Lynchburg and Tri-Cities markets.
The network's flagship station, WBRA-TV in Roanoke (channel 15), first went to the air on August 14, 1967, originally affiliated with the NET National Educational Television network, before that network became PBS in 1970.
Over the years, WBRA established two satellite transmitters -- WSBN-TV channel 47 in Norton in 1971 (originally WSVN until 1981) and WMSY-TV channel 52 in Marion in 1981. WSBN brought a city-grade PBS signal to the Tri-Cities for the first time.
In the 1980s, WBRA began identifying on-air as "Blue Ridge Public Television (BRPublic TV), due of its location near the Blue Ridge Mountains and to avoid WBRA's obvious similarity to the word "bra". In 2007, it changed its on-air name to Blue Ridge PBS.
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