WKNO

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WKNO
Memphis, Tennessee
Branding	WKNO Channel 10
Slogan	Public Broadcasting for the Mid-South
Channels	10 (VHF) analog, 29 (UHF) digital
Affiliations	PBS (Since 1970)
Owner	Mid-South Public Communications Foundation
Founded	June 25, 1956
Call letters meaning	W Knowledge
Former affiliations	Educational Independent (1956-1962) & NET (1962-1970)
Website	www.wkno.org/

WKNO is a PBS member station in Memphis, Tennessee, broadcasting locally on VHF channel 10.

The station is owned and operated by The Mid-South Public Communications Foundation, a non-profit organization governed by a board of trustees composed of volunteers. Unlike most of Tennessee's public TV outlets, WKNO has never had direct or indirect ties to state government, even though during its early years the station would mention on air "Tennessee Educational Television" during in-school hours and "Tennessee Public Television" during off-school hours, including prime-time.

[edit] History

WKNO signed on the air on June 25, 1956 as Tennessee's first public television outlet and is one of several independent non-commercial stations in the U.S. still in continuous operation. Its studios were first located in midtown Memphis, but relocated to the south campus of Memphis State University (now University of Memphis) sometime in the late 1970s. From 1968 to 1981, WLJT-TV, Lexington/Martin, Tenn., repeated WKNO's signal for viewers in the remainder of western Tennessee outside the Memphis metropolitan area, but afterward, began broadcasting separate programming.

WKNO broadcasts its digital signal on channel 29.

WKNO/MSPCF also operates a small network of FM public radio stations; see WKNO-FM.

[edit] External links

• Official site
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WKNO