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WBIR-TV was originally owned by a consortium headed by J. Lindsay Nunn and his son, Gilmore Nunn, owners of WBIR radio (1240 AM, now WIFA; and FM 103.5, now WIMZ-FM). The station's call letters come from Jesse W. "Jay" Birdwell, who founded WBIR radio in 1941; Birdwell sold the AM radio station to the Nunns in 1944. [ 3 ]
WBAL-DT2 preempts network programming for a WBAL-produced, half-hour 10:00 p.m. newscast on Sunday through Friday nights, local newsmagazine 11 TV Hill (on Sundays at 10:30 p.m.), and encores of the week's newscasts (on Saturdays and Sundays at 10:00 and 10:30 a.m. and Saturdays at noon)
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.
The dispute with Tegna's Knoxville NBC affiliate, WBIR, comes after the DirecTV-Nexstar dispute and Charter-Disney dispute from earlier this year.
The company sold off most of its radio stations including WBIR-AM-FM, while keeping its television stations. WBIR-TV kept its original call letters but the radio stations were required to get new call signs. Through the years, 1240 AM has been called WEZK, WZEZ, WIMZ (call letters still found on 103.5 FM), WTXM and WJXB.
Located about a half mile east of House Mountain on much lower Zachary Ridge (behind House Mountain in the picture) is a 1,751-foot (534 m) broadcasting tower, formerly owned and used by WBIR-TV, Channel 10, Knoxville. The tall tower was actually built in 1963 because the former owners of WBIR— seeking to expand their broadcast coverage in ...
WATE-TV (channel 6) is a television station in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States, affiliated with ABC and owned by Nexstar Media Group. The station's studios are located in the Greystone mansion on North Broadway/ SR 33 / SR 71 / US 441 , and its transmitter is located on Sharp's Ridge in North Knoxville .
NBC affiliate owned by Hearst Television Cleveland, OH: WKYC-TV 1: 3 1990–1995 NBC affiliate owned by Tegna Inc. Greenville–Spartanburg, SC–Asheville, NC: WFBC-TV ** 4 1954–1983 NBC affiliate WYFF, owned by Hearst Television Knoxville, TN: WBIR-TV: 10 1960–1995 NBC affiliate owned by Tegna Inc. Nashville, TN: WZTV: 17 1979–1988