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WBIR-TV (channel 10) is a television station in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States, affiliated with NBC. Owned by Tegna Inc. , the station maintains studios on Bill Williams Avenue in Knoxville's Belle Morris section, and its transmitter is located on Sharp's Ridge in North Knoxville .
The dispute with Tegna's Knoxville NBC affiliate, WBIR, comes after the DirecTV-Nexstar dispute and Charter-Disney dispute from earlier this year. Some Knoxville TV viewers are without WBIR. What ...
Williams returned the anchor desk again in February 2013 to anchor a "Retro Newscast" on WBIR with former WBIR anchor Edye Ellis, former WBIR sports director Bob Kesling and now former WBIR anchor Moira Kaye who was a weekend weather forecaster and morning anchor in the 1980s and early 1990s for WBIR [2] to celebrate 30 years of their slogan ...
In February 2009, WBIR announced plans to suspend production of the series in September 2009 after taking it "through to some sort of conclusion." [ 5 ] WBIR general manager Jeff Lee cited economics as the reason for ending production, noting "it is a luxury for three people to produce 3-1/2 minutes of TV a week."
In 1995, Acosta moved in front of the camera, becoming a reporter and substitute anchor at NBC affiliate WBIR-TV in Knoxville, Tennessee, and remained in that job until 1998. From 1998 until 2000, Acosta worked as a reporter for CBS affiliate KTVT-TV in Fort Worth. From 2000 until 2001, Acosta was a reporter for WBBM-TV in Chicago.
WBIR 10 Swapped affiliations with ABC affiliate WTVK due to ABC looking for a stronger affiliate in Knoxville (at the time, ABC was the highest-rated network in the country). WTVK 26 (now WVLT-TV 8) 1979–1988 CBS Swapped affiliations with CBS affiliate WBIR-TV, returning CBS to its original Knoxville affiliate. Shortly after re-joining CBS ...
On March 28, 2011, WBIR took over production of the nightly newscast and expanded it to one hour on weeknights. Later that year, a two-hour morning show produced by WBIR-TV was also added. [ 24 ] Prior to producing the WTNZ newscasts, WBIR had produced a 10-minute 10 p.m. newscast for WBXX-TV (channel 20); WATE-TV took over those duties from ...
In Knoxville, Tennessee, CBS affiliate WBIR-TV swaps affiliations with NBC affiliate WTVK in time for NBC Sports' coverage of the 1988 Summer Olympic Games. Shortly after the switch, WTVK moves to channel 8, one of the last remaining VHF channel allocations in the U.S., and becomes WKXT-TV (now WVLT-TV). [8] September 18