{"id":2584,"date":"2015-09-03T18:35:17","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T22:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=2584"},"modified":"2015-09-03T18:35:17","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T22:35:17","slug":"liberty-university-re-launches-local-tv-station-as-vehicle-for-sports-programming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=2584","title":{"rendered":"Liberty University re-launches local TV station as vehicle for sports programming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liberty University recently purchased the license for channel 24, a full-power TV station serving all of Central and Southwest Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>The channel was most recently known as &#8220;WDRL,&#8221; but it went off the air in 2010 when the previous owner got into a copyright dispute with a cable company.<\/p>\n<p>Liberty has spent more than a year preparing to re-launch the channel as &#8220;WFFP,&#8221; a vehicle for sports programming.  School leaders have built a TV studio at River Ridge Mall, where programs like the sports show &#8220;Game On&#8221; are produced.<\/p>\n<p>LU students use the facility as a training ground.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wdbj7.com\/news\/local\/liberty-university-relaunches-local-tv-station-as-vehicle-for-sports-programming\/35088592\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.wdbj7.com\/news\/local\/liberty-university-relaunches-local-tv-station-as-vehicle-for-sports-programming\/35088592<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberty University recently purchased the license for channel 24, a full-power TV station serving all of Central and Southwest Virginia. The channel was most recently&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=2584\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Liberty University re-launches local TV station as vehicle for sports programming<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/LU-TV-090315-jpg.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pJcR0-FG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}