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| Affiliations | ABC |
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| Owner | Radio Roanoke |
| WROV, WROV-FM | |
| History | |
First air date | March 2, 1953 |
Last air date | July 18, 1953 (138 days) |
Call sign meaning | "Roanoke, Virginia", from the co-owned radio stations |
WROV-TV was a television station on ultra high frequency (UHF) channel 27 in Roanoke, Virginia, United States. It broadcast from March 2 to July 18, 1953, becoming the first UHF station in the United States to cease broadcasting. Its failure was the first of many in the early days of UHF television, which was hindered by signal issues in mountainous areas and the lack of UHF tuning on all television sets—a problem not resolved until the All-Channel Receiver Act took effect in 1964.