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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.
WFBC-TV, the News and Piedmont's television station, signed on from Greenville at the end of 1953. The News-Piedmont Co. would expand its broadcast holdings with the acquisitions of WBIR-AM - FM - TV in Knoxville in 1961, and of the Southeastern Broadcasting Company, which owned WMAZ-AM - FM - TV in Macon, Georgia , in 1963.
At one time, this tower, another 800-foot (240 m) tower owned by WATE-TV, and the 1,000-foot (300 m) WTVK tower were the only ones on the ridge. The Sharp's Ridge antenna farm is also the transmitting location for Class C FM radio station, WJXB-FM 97.5, whose antenna is located on the South Central Communications tower.
As an NBC affiliate, WBIR broadcasts prime-time NFL games every Sunday night during football season. Fortunately for Titans fans, the team's upcoming prime-time game against Miami will be played ...
In 1956, WBIR added a television station, WBIR-TV channel 10. WBIR-AM-FM-TV were owned by a consortium headed by J. Lindsay Nunn and his son, Gilmore Nunn. The Nunn Family bought WBIR in 1944. In January 1961, WBIR-AM-FM-TV were sold to the News-Piedmont Company of Greenville, South Carolina.
The original call sign was WBIR-FM, mostly simulcasting its AM counterpart, WBIR 1240 AM (now WIFA). [3] The studios were on Gay Street in Knoxville. Television station WBIR-TV Channel 10 was added in 1956. WBIR-AM-FM-TV were owned by a consortium headed by J. Lindsay Nunn and his son, Gilmore Nunn.
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 WBIR and expanded that program to a full 35 minutes. [25] A half-hour 6:30 p.m. newscast from WBIR-TV was added in 2017.
WTAF-TV 29 1969–1987 Fox owned-and-operated (O&O) WTXF-TV: WPHL-TV: 17 1987–1992 The CW and MyNetworkTV affiliate owned by Nexstar Media Group Scranton–Wilkes-Barre, PA: WNEP-TV: 16 1964–1973 ABC affiliate owned by Tegna Inc. Knoxville, TN: WBIR-TV: 10 1959–1960 1: NBC affiliate owned by Tegna Inc. Fort Worth–Dallas, TX: KTXA: 21 ...