WZBJ

WZBJ (channel 24) is a television station licensed to Danville, Virginia, United States, serving the Roanoke–Lynchburg market as an affiliate of MyNetworkTV.

On January 1, 1997 (as the FCC was switching from using Arbitron's ADI to Nielsen's DMA system to determine which counties remained part of the Roanoke–Lynchburg market, then ranked as the 67th largest in the United States), WDRG changed its call letters to WDRL-TV, standing for Danville–Roanoke–Lynchburg.

On March 31, 2005, the FCC ordered the Roanoke translator to cease operations to make way for repurposing the frequency for cellular phone signal relays.

On October 30, 2008, Living Faith Television – whose flagship station is WLFG (channel 68) – announced that it would buy WDRL for $5.25 million.

In March 2012, the bankruptcy court approved the sale of WEFC to Jones Broadcasting, owner of WAZT-CA (channel 10, now WDCO-CD) in Woodstock and its repeaters.

[15][16] On August 13, 2018, Gray announced that it would change WFFP-TV's call letters to WZBJ effective September 1 and become a MyNetworkTV affiliate (the affiliation had previously been held by a digital subchannel of WDBJ, and in the interim had been transferred to WLHG-CD on June 15, 2018); as part of the relaunch, the station will also add an hour-long extension of WDBJ's weekday morning newscast and a half-hour WDBJ-produced weeknight prime time newscast.

[19] The station's signal is multiplexed: From 1994 until 2008, WDRL-TV's analog broadcast was originated from a transmitter near Pelham, North Carolina, within 2 miles (3.2 km) of the border with Virginia.

WDRL-DT's Smith Mountain transmitter went on the air in May 2006,[21] providing predicted city grade coverage of Lynchburg and Roanoke, the New River Valley and all of the south side of Virginia.

Digital coverage was predicted to extend into the north-central North Carolina counties of Caswell, Rockingham, Person, and Stokes.

On November 22, 2017, a channel sharing agreement with Gray Television-owned CBS affiliate (and future sister station) WDBJ was filed with the FCC.

[1] With a move to WDBJ's Poor Mountain transmitter, this would enable WFFP-TV to greatly expand its over-the-air coverage area.