WKNO (TV)

WKNO (channel 10) is a PBS member television station in Memphis, Tennessee, United States. The station is owned by the Mid-South Public Communications Foundation, a non-profit organization governed by a board of trustees composed of volunteers, and is operated alongside NPR member WKNO-FM (91.1). The two stations share studios on Cherry Farms Road with the TV station's transmitter on Raleigh LaGrange Road, both in the Cordova section of unincorporated Shelby County.

WKNO
Channels
BrandingWKNO Channel 10
Programming
Affiliations10.1: PBS
10.2: WKNO 2
10.3: PBS Kids
Ownership
OwnerMid-South Public Communications Foundation
WKNO-FM
History
First air date
June 25, 1956 (1956-06-25)
Former call signs
WKNO-TV (1956–?)
Former channel number(s)
Analog: 10 (VHF, 1956–2009)
NET (1956–1970)
Call sign meaning
Knowledge
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID42061
ERP835 kW
HAAT320.2 m (1,050.5 ft)
Transmitter coordinates35°9′16″N 89°49′20″W
Links
Public license information
Websitewww.wkno.org

History

The station first signed on the air on June 25, 1956 as Tennessee's first public television outlet. Its studios were first located in midtown Memphis, but would move several years later to rented space on the campus of Memphis State University (now the University of Memphis); in 1979, the studios were relocated a few blocks to the south, to the southern annex of the MSU campus on Getwell Road. That facility served the station for 30 years until November 2009, when the station moved into a custom-designed all-digital studio facility in Cordova.[2]

From 1968 to 1981, WKNO's programming was repeated on WLJT in Lexington for viewers in the remainder of western Tennessee outside the Memphis metropolitan area. Afterward, that station eventually began broadcasting a separate programming schedule, including programming of local interest to that region.

Programming

Nationally distributed programming produced or presented by WKNO includes Travels & Traditions and other programs by Burt Wolf, Classic Gospel, Sun Studio Sessions, and GardenSMART.[3][4]

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Subchannels of WKNO[5]
Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming
10.1 1080i16:9WKNO-HDMain WKNO programming / PBS
10.2 480iWKNO-SD"WKNO 2"
10.3 KNO-KID24/7 PBS Kids programming

Analog-to-digital conversion

WKNO discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over VHF channel 10, on May 1, 2009.[6] The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 29, using PSIP to display WKNO's virtual channel as 10 on digital television receivers.

References
  1. "Facility Technical Data for WKNO". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2009/nov/15/dialing-it-up/
  3. "WKNO National".
  4. "WOLF: Travels & Traditions&l= BURT WOLF: Travels & Traditions - Search Results".
  5. "RabbitEars TV Query for WKNO". rabbitears.info.
  6. List of Digital Full-Power Stations
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