WKNO
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| WKNO | |
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| Memphis, Tennessee | |
| Branding | WKNO Channel 10 |
| Slogan | Public Broadcasting for the Mid-South |
| Channels | 10 (VHF) analog, 29 (UHF) digital |
| Affiliations | PBS |
| Owner | Mid-South Public Communications Foundation |
| Founded | June 25, 1956 |
| Call letters meaning | W Knowledge |
| Former affiliations | NET (1956-1970) |
| 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 community-supported 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) in the late 1970s. From 1968 through 1981, WLJT, channel 11, whose signal reached those portions of western Tennessee near the Tennessee River and the state line of Kentucky, repeated WKNO's signal, but afterward began broadcasting separate programming.
Recently, WKNO began digital broadcasting on channel 29.
WKNO/MSPCF also operates a small network of FM radio stations, affiliated with National Public Radio; see WKNO-FM.
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| Broadcast television in the Memphis market (Nielsen DMA #44) | |||
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WREG 3 (CBS) - WMC 5 (NBC) (The Tube on DT3) - WKNO 10 (PBS) - WMAE 12 / WMAV 18 (PBS/MPB) - WPRQ-LP 12 (A1) - WHBQ 13 (Fox) - W18BL 18 (UBN) - WBII 20 (A1) - WPTY 24 (ABC) - WLMT 30 (The CW) - WBUY 40 (TBN) - W42BY 42 (3ABN) - WPXX 50 (MyNetworkTV/i) - W57CG 57 (Ind.) - WJRJ 59 (Daystar) |
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See also broadcast television in Jonesboro, Jackson TN, Greenwood / Greenville and Columbus/Tupelo/West Point markets |
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| PBS Member Stations in the state of Tennessee | |
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WETP 2 / WKOP 15 (Sneedville / Knoxville) - WNPT 8 (Nashville) - WKNO 10 (Memphis) - WLJT 11 (Lexington) - WCTE 22 (Cookeville) - WTCI 45 (Chattanooga) |
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| See also: ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, i, MyNetworkTV, NBC and Other stations in Tennessee | |
