WKNO (TV)

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WKNO
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Memphis, Tennessee
United States
ChannelsDigital: 29 (UHF)
Virtual: 10
BrandingWKNO Channel 10
Programming
Affiliations10.1: PBS
10.2: WKNO 2
10.3: PBS Kids
Ownership
OwnerMid-South Public Communications Foundation
WKNO-FM
History
First air date
June 25, 1956 (65 years ago) (1956-06-25)
Former call signs
WKNO-TV (1956–?)
Former channel number(s)
Analog:
10 (VHF, 1956–2009)
NET (1956–1970)
Call sign meaning
Knowledge
Technical information
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID42061
ERP835 kW
HAAT320.2 m (1,051 ft)
Transmitter coordinates35°9′16″N 89°49′20″W / 35.15444°N 89.82222°W / 35.15444; -89.82222 (WKNO)
Links
Public license information
Profile
LMS
Websitewww.wkno.org

WKNO, virtual channel 10 (UHF digital channel 29), is a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) member television station licensed to Memphis, Tennessee, United States. The station is owned by the Mid-South Public Communications Foundation, a non-profit organization governed by a board of trustees composed of volunteers, and is operated alongside National Public Radio (NPR) member radio station WKNO-FM (91.1). The two stations share studios on Cherry Farms Road with the TV station's transmitter on Raleigh LaGrange Road, both in the Cordova section of unincorporated Shelby County.

History[]

The station first signed on the air on June 25, 1956 as Tennessee's first public television outlet. Its studios were first located in midtown Memphis, but would move several years later to rented space on the campus of Memphis State University (now the University of Memphis); in 1979, the studios were relocated a few blocks to the south, to the southern annex of the MSU campus on Getwell Road. That facility served the station for 30 years until November 2009, when the station moved into a custom-designed all-digital studio facility in Cordova.[1]

From 1968 to 1981, WKNO's programming was repeated on WLJT in Lexington for viewers in the remainder of western Tennessee outside the Memphis metropolitan area. Afterward, that station eventually began broadcasting a separate programming schedule, including programming of local interest to that region.[citation needed]

Programming[]

Nationally distributed programming produced or presented by WKNO includes Travels & Traditions and other programs by Burt Wolf, Classic Gospel, Sun Studio Sessions, and GardenSMART.[2][3]

Technical information[]

Subchannels[]

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Channel Video Aspect Short name Programming[4]
10.1 1080i 16:9 WKNO-HD Main WKNO-TV programming / PBS
10.2 480i WKNO-2 "WKNO 2"
10.3 4:3 KNO-KID 24/7 PBS Kids Programming

Analog-to-digital conversion[]

WKNO discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over VHF channel 10, on May 1, 2009.[5] The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 29, using PSIP to display WKNO's virtual channel as 10 on digital television receivers.

References[]

  1. ^ [1]
  2. ^ WKNO National
  3. ^ WOLF: Travels & Traditions&l= BURT WOLF: Travels & Traditions - Search Results
  4. ^ RabbitEars TV Query for WKNO
  5. ^ List of Digital Full-Power Stations

External links[]

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