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| City | Tazewell, Tennessee |
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| Branding | CTN Knoxville |
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First air date | October 6, 2002 (2002-10-06) |
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Call sign meaning | Volunteer Christian Television |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| 81750 | |
| ERP | 798 kW |
| HAAT | 430 m (1,411 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 36°15′30.3″N 83°37′42.6″W / 36.258417°N 83.628500°W / 36.258417; -83.628500 |
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| Website | ctnonline |
WVLR (channel 48) is a religious television station licensed to Tazewell, Tennessee, United States, serving the Knoxville area. The station is owned by the Christian Television Network (CTN). WVLR's studios are located on Kyker Ferry Road in Kodak, and its transmitter is located on Clinch Mountain near Powder Springs in unincorporated Grainger County.
History
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The station signed on October 6, 2002; it was added to East Tennessee cable systems in early 2003.[2]
Technical information
[edit]Subchannels
[edit]The station's signal is multiplexed:
| Channel | Res. | Short name | Programming |
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| 48.1 | 1080i | WVLR-HD | CTN |
| 48.3 | 480i | CTNi | CTN International (4:3) |
| 48.4 | BUZZR | Buzzr (4:3) | |
| 48.5 | BIZ-TV | Biz TV |
Analog-to-digital conversion
[edit]WVLR shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 48, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station "flash-cut" its digital signal into operation on UHF channel 48.[4] Because it was granted an original construction permit after the FCC finalized the DTV allotment plan on April 21, 1997,[5] WVLR did not receive a companion channel for a digital television station.
References
[edit]- ↑ "Facility Technical Data for WVLR". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ↑ Morrow, Terry (June 30, 2003). "WVLR grows as Christian TV". The Knoxville News-Sentinel. p. E7. Retrieved June 4, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ "TV Query for WVLR". RabbitEars.
- ↑ "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds" (PDF). Retrieved March 24, 2012.
- ↑ "Final DTV Channel Plan from FCC97-115".
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