ShopTalk Roanoke Stations Cover Virginia Tech Incident By Merrill Knox on Aug. 4, 2011 - 4:40 PM At just 40 miles away from Blacksburg, VA, Roanoke is the closest market to Virginia Tech University, the site of a 2007 massacre that left 33 dead. This morning, Roanoke stations were called to action again as Virginia Tech was p ...