WVLR
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Tazewell/Knoxville, Tennessee United States | |
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City | Tazewell, Tennessee |
Channels | Digital: 36 (UHF) Virtual: 48 |
Programming | |
Affiliations | 48.1: CTN 48.2: CTN Lifestyle 48.3: CTNi 48.4: CTN SD |
Ownership | |
Owner | Christian Television Network (Volunteer Christian Television, Inc.) |
History | |
First air date | October 6, 2002 |
Former channel number(s) | Analog: 48 (UHF, 2002–2009) Digital: 48 (UHF, 2009–2020) |
Call sign meaning | Volunteer Christian Television |
Technical information | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
Facility ID | 81750 |
ERP | 798 kW |
HAAT | 430 m (1,411 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 36°15′30.3″N 83°37′42.6″W / 36.258417°N 83.628500°W |
Links | |
Public license information | Profile LMS |
Website | wvlr-tv |
WVLR, virtual channel 48 and UHF digital channel 36, is a Christian Television Network (CTN) owned-and-operated station serving Knoxville, Tennessee, United States, that is licensed to Tazewell. The station's studios are located on Kyker Ferry Road in Kodak, and its transmitter is located on Clinch Mountain near Powder Springs in unincorporated Grainger County.
History[]
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The station signed on October 6, 2002.
Technical information[]
Subchannels[]
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
Channel | Video | Aspect | Short name | Programming[1] |
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48.1 | 1080i | 16:9 | WVLR-HD | CTN |
48.2 | 480i | 4:3 | LIFESTY | CTN Lifestyle |
48.3 | CTNI | CTNi (Spanish) | ||
48.4 | CTN | CTN SD |
Analog-to-digital conversion[]
WVLR shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 48, on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station "flash-cut" its digital signal into operation on UHF channel 48.[2] Because it was granted an original construction permit after the FCC finalized the DTV allotment plan on April 21, 1997,[3] WVLR did not receive a companion channel for a digital television station.
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- Television channels and stations established in 2002
- Television stations in Knoxville, Tennessee
- 2002 establishments in Tennessee
- Christian Television Network affiliates
- Claiborne County, Tennessee
- Christian organization stubs
- Southern United States television station stubs