WBXX-TV
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| WBXX-TV | |
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| Crossville/Knoxville, Tennessee | |
| Branding | East Tennessee's CW |
| Channels | Analog: 20 (UHF) |
| Affiliations | The CW |
| Owner | ACME Communications, Inc. (ACME Television Licenses of Tennessee, LLC) |
| First air date | October 1997 |
| Call letters’ meaning | The WB (former affiliation) XX = Roman numeral 20 |
| Former affiliations | The WB (1997-2006) |
| Transmitter Power | 3630 kW (analog) 375 kW (digital) |
| Height | 738 m (analog) 719 m (digital) |
| Facility ID | 72971 |
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| Website | www.easttennesseescw.com |
WBXX-TV (East Tennessee's CW) is the CW affiliate in the Knoxville, Tennessee television market. Licensed to Crossville, Tennessee, the station serves the East Tennessee region, broadcasting from offices in Knoxville. It broadcasts on analog UHF channel 20 and digital channel 50. Its transmitter is located in Oliver Springs, Tennessee.
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[edit] History
The station began operation in October 1997 as a WB affiliate. Originally billed as "WB20", it renamed itself as "East Tennessee's WB" in September 2003 as part of a nationwide rebranding push by The WB. During the 2001 and 2002 television seasons, it ran selected shows from the UPN lineup on weekends, as there was no UPN station in the market at that time. The station is owned and operated by ACME Communications.
WBXX was consistently one of the highest-rated WB stations in the country, and was recognized as such by the WB network.
On March 9, 2006, it was announced that WBXX would affiliate with The CW Television Network, as part of a group deal with the network and ACME Communications.
[edit] Newscasts
WBXX currently airs two news programs. 10 News at 10 is co-production with WBIR, the Knoxville NBC affiliate. While many stations air a 10pm newscast, 10 News at 10 differs from these in that it is only twelve minutes long, featuring primarily the top stories of the day, and a local weather forecast. The station's late-night programming has accordingly been shifted twelve minutes later.
Weekday mornings, the station airs The Daily Buzz, a three-hour news/entertainment show syndicated by the station's parent company.
[edit] Kids' Club
Beginning in 1998, the station aired a series of interstitials called "WB20 Kids Club" (later "Dubba Clubba"), hosted by Joe Cool, who presented information and contests to viewers in several vignettes each weekday, covering topics such as science, biology, conservation, music, and pet care. Joe Cool was played by comedian Jackson Bailey.
[edit] Trivia
WBXX is the only full-powered Knoxville-market station to be licensed in a city in the Central Time Zone; Cumberland County (where Crossville is located) and Fentress County are the two counties in the Knoxville market that observe Central Time, one hour earlier than Knoxville, in Eastern Time. However, while CW programming has times given in Eastern and Central, local WBXX programming only has times given in Eastern.
[edit] External links
- East Tennessee's CW website
- Query the FCC's TV station database for WBXX
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on WBXX-TV
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