WVLT-TV
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| WVLT-TV | |
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| Knoxville, Tennessee | |
| Branding | WVLT Volunteer TV |
| Channels | 8 (VHF) analog, 30 (UHF) digital |
| Affiliations | CBS (1953-56 and since 1988) MyNetworkTV |
| Owner | Gray Television |
| Founded | October, 1953 on channel 26 (moved to channel 8 in 1988) |
| Call letters meaning | VoLunteer TV |
| Former callsigns | WSKT-TV (1953-1954) WTVK (1954-88), WKXT-TV (1988-97) |
| Former affiliations | ABC (1953-80, secondary until 1956),Dumont (1953-1955), NBC (1980-87), UPN on DT2 until 9/06 |
| Website | volunteertv.com |
WVLT-TV, "WVLT Volunteer TV" is an affiliate of the CBS television network, serving Knoxville, Tennessee, the 60th DMA in America according to Nielsen Media Research. The station is owned and operated by Gray Television. Its transmitter is located in Knoxville.
The station also operates a MyNetworkTV affiliate My East TN TV on its DT2 digital sub-channel. WVLT DT2 use to be an affiliate with UPN and was branded as UPN Knoxville.
WVLT-TV is the only television news operation in the Knoxville market to have news bureaus servicing specific areas of the market, Anderson County, Tennessee and Blount County, Tennessee. The station also touts itself as having the only mid-afternoon newscast in Knoxville (FIRST at 4:00) and the only early evening newscast (Volunteer TV News at 7:00).
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[edit] History
WVLT-TV signed on the air on October, 1953 as WSKT-TV later WTVK, a CBS affiliate on channel 26. It was Tennessee's first UHF station. In 1954, the station would be acquired by its long-time owner, South Central Communications.
WTVK also shared ABC programming with WROL-TV (now WATE-TV).
When WBIR-TV signed on in 1956 and took the CBS affiliation, WTVK became a full-time ABC affiliate.
In 1979, the station changed affiliations from ABC to NBC, swapping affiliations with WATE-TV.
In 1988, the station changed affiliations from NBC to CBS, swapping affiliations with WBIR-TV; shortly afterward the station changed its calls to WKXT-TV and moved to channel 8, one of the last remaining VHF channel allocations in the U.S. It changed its callsign again to WVLT in 1997 after Knoxville Channel 8, LP sold the station to current owner Gray Television. Because of this, WVLT is one of a few stations in America to have been an affiliate of all "Big 3" networks.
[edit] News reporters and journalists
[edit] News Anchors
- Alan Williams - Lead Anchor
- Kelli Parker - Lead Anchor
- Bob Yarbrough - Morning Anchor
- Stacy McCloud - Morning Anchor
- Mark Packer - FIRST at 4:00 Anchor
- Jessa Goddard - Noon Anchor, 7:00 Anchor
- Gordon Boyd - Weekend Anchor
- Kim Bedford - Weekend Anchor
[edit] Sports
- Rick Russo - Sports Director
- Mark Packer
- Justin Kropff
- Daryl Hobby
[edit] News Reporters
- Gordon Boyd
- Kim Bedford
- Whitney Daniel
- Allison Hunt
- Gary Loe
- Stephen McLamb (Blount County Bureau Chief)
[edit] Weather
- Craig Edwards
- Scott Blalock
- Allison Hunt
[edit] Miscellaneous
- Walter Lambert (TV Chef)
- Shirley Nash-Pitts (Consumer Expert)
[edit] Current Newscast Info
[edit] Newscasts
- East Tennessee This Morning (5:30 a.m. - 7:00 a.m.)
- WVLT TV News at Noon (12:00 p.m. - 12:30 p.m.)
- FIRST at 4:00 (4:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.)
- WVLT NewsHour (5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.)
- WVLT TV News at 7:00 (7:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.)
- WVLT TV News NightWATCH (11:00 p.m. - 11:30 p.m.)
[edit] Past Newscast Info
[edit] Past Newscast Titles
- First Edition News (Mid 1970s-Late 1970s)
- Metro 26 News (Late 1970s-Early 1980s)
- NewsCenter 26 (Early 1980s-1986)
- WTVK NewsCenter (1986-1987)
- News 8 (1987-1997)
- NewsChannel 8 (1997-1998)
- Volunteer News (1998-2001 or 2002)
- Volunteer TV News (2002-2006)
[edit] Past Personalities
- Monte Janssen (Reporter)
- Melinda Kramer (Reporter)
- Allen Denton (Anchor)
- Sam Brown (Anchor)
- Elda Brown (Anchor)
- Cheryl Masur (Anchor)
- Kathryn Norton (Anchor)
- Kent Blackwelder (Noonday)
- Don Bagwell (News Director)
- Ralph Boston (Sports Director)
- Don Carson (Weather)
- Stan Cotton (Sports)
- Ron Sprowl (Anchor)
- Jennifer Julian (Anchor)
- Jim Hampton (Anchor/reporter)
- John Lomax (Anchor/reporter)
- David Sharp (Sports)
- Russ Greene (Reporter)
- Russell Walker (Reporter)
- Johnny Mountain (Weather) now at KCBS-TV
- Kim Sims Thomas (Noonday)
- Phil Ranney, Anchor
- Jim (Big Jim) Hess, (Sports)
- Brenda Burch (Anchor)
- Lisa Stearns (Reporter)
- Rusty Ensor (Sports anchor)
- Topper Shutt (Weather anchor)
- Norman Hammitt (Anchor)
- Rob Scobey (Anchor/reporter)
- Mike Raita (Sports anchor)
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
| Broadcast television in the Knoxville market (Nielsen DMA #58) | |||
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WETP 2/WKOP 15 (PBS) - WKXE-LP 4 (IND) - WATE 6 (ABC) - WVLT 8 (CBS) (My Network TV on DT2) - WBIR 10 (NBC) - WFEM 12 (FamilyNet/A1) - WLOS 13 (ABC) - W14CX 14 (IND) - WBXX 20 (The CW) - WJZC-LP 22/WEZK-LP 28 (IND) - WEEE-CA 32 (FamilyNet) - WDTT-LP 38 (A1) - WTNZ 43 (FOX) (The Tube on DT2) - W46DC 46 (TBN) - WVLR 48 (CTN) - W50CG 50 (3ABN) - WPXK 54 (i) |
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| Local digital television channels | |||
| CBS Network Affiliates in the state of Tennessee | |
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WREG 3 (Memphis) - WTVF 5 (Nashville) - WVLT 8 (Knoxville) - WJHL 11 (Kingsport) - WDEF 12 (Chattanooga) |
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| See also: ABC, CW, Fox, i, MyNetworkTV, NBC, PBS and Other stations in Tennessee | |
