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WBTM
WBTM is a Classic Hits formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Danville, Virginia, serving Southern Pittsylvania County in Virginia and Northern Caswell County in North Carolina. WBTM is owned and operated by Piedmont Broadcasting Corporation.
Translator.
In addition to the main station, WBTM is relayed by an FM translator to widen its broadcast area.
History.
On January 1, 1940, after Lynchburg Broadcasting Corporation gained managerial control of WBTM it began exchanging programs with WLVA in Lynchburg, Virginia, for four hours daily via
WZBJ share transmitter facilities on Poor Mountain in Roanoke County.
History.
The channel 24 dial position was once occupied by WBTM-TV, which operated in the mid-to-late 1950s. The station only lasted a few years before attempting to become a hybrid commercial and educational station. This request to the FCC was denied, and the station went off the air not long after.
The station first signed on the air on August 18, 1994 as independent station WDRG (the calls standing for its broad