WVLT-DT2

WVLT-DT2
Knoxville, Tennessee
United States
City Knoxville, Tennessee
Branding My VLT
Channels Digital: WVLT-DT 30.2 (UHF)
8.2 (PSIP)
Affiliations MyNetworkTV (since 2006)
Jewelry Television (overnights, 12-9 a.m. ET)
Owner Gray Television
(Gray Television Licensee, LLC)
Founded 2003
First air date 2003 (2003)
Call letters' meaning see WVLT
Sister station(s) WVLT-TV
Former affiliations UPN (2003-2006)
Transmitter power 398 kW
Height 551.3 metres (1,809 ft)
Facility ID 35908
Licensing authority FCC
Public license information: Profile
CDBS
Website WVLT Website

WVLT-DT2 is the MyNetworkTV-affiliated television station in Knoxville, Tennessee. It is a digital subchannel of CBS-affiliate WVLT-TV, owned by Gray Television. Its parent station has studios on Papermill Drive (near I-40/I-75) on the city’s westside. The channel simulcasts the Jewelry Television network overnights from 12 to 9 a.m. ET.[1]

History

WVLT-DT2 began broadcasting in 2003 as an affiliate of UPN, the United Paramount Network, and was originally branded as UPN Knoxville. It cleared the whole UPN network schedule. The original UPN affiliate in Knoxville was the now-defunct WEEE-LP, which was also a secondary affiliate of FamilyNet.

In September 2006, UPN and The WB networks ceased operations and merged to create The CW Television Network. WBXX channel 20, the original WB affiliate for Knoxville, took the CW affiliation for Knoxville. The same month, Fox Television Stations launched MyNetworkTV to give UPN and WB stations not selected for the CW another option besides going independent. WVLT-DT2 was announced as Knoxville’s MyNetworkTV affiliate beginning September 2006. Since then, it is branded as My VLT, although for the first few years of MyNetworkTV affiliation, it had a branding of My VLT 2.[2][3][4]

It began broadcasting a 720p high definition signal in Mid 2011, but MyNetworkTV programming is still broadcast in 480i standard definition, so the picture is stretched to fill the 16:9 screen using “Stretch-O-Vision”.

Programming

Outside of the MyNetworkTV schedule, syndicated programming on WVLT-DT2 includes Mike & Molly, The Office, Extra, and Hot in Cleveland, among others. WVLT-DT2 also runs some programming shared with the main channel. From 2009 until 2015, Atlantic Coast Conference football and men’s basketball games syndicated by the ACC Network by Raycom Sports were broadcast on WVLT-DT2; the local rights to those games have been moved to the main subchannel, with some games shared with WBXX.

WVLT-DT2, along with the CBS-affiliated main channel of WVLT also airs all Vol TV Network content produced by the University of Tennessee athletic department’s broadcasting arm.

See also

References

  1. ↑ WVLT-TV
  2. ↑ Local 8 Now MyVLT | Knoxville, East Tennessee | MyVLT - Home WVLT. Retrieved November 8, 2014.
  3. ↑ Morrow, Terry (September 4, 2006).Morrow: Local UPN morphs into My Network Knoxville News Sentinel. Retrieved January 8, 2015.
  4. ↑ Breaking News - MyNetworkTV Adds 30 New Affiliates | TheFutonCritic.com

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