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WKNO
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| Memphis, Tennessee | |
| Branding | WKNO Channel 10 |
| Slogan | Public Broadcasting for the Mid-South |
| Channels | Analog: 10 (VHF) Digital: 29 (UHF) |
| Affiliations | PBS (Since 1970) |
| Owner | Mid-South Public Communications Foundation |
| Founded | June 25, 1956 |
| Call letters meaning | W Knowledge |
| Former affiliations | Educational Independent (1956-1962) & NET (1962-1970) |
| Website | www.wkno.org/ |
WKNO is a Christian PBS-member television station in Memphis, Tennessee, broadcasting locally on VHF channel 10.
The station is owned and operated by The Mid-South Public Communications Foundation, a non-profit organization governed by a board of trustees composed of volunteers. Unlike most of Tennessee's public TV outlets, WKNO has never had direct or indirect ties to state government, even though during its early years the station would mention on air "Tennessee Educational Television" during in-school hours and "Tennessee Public Television" during off-school hours, including prime time. In 2007, WKNO sold its 89.9 and 90.7 translators to Evangelical Christians, causing an uproar in the student bodies of Memphis College of Art and University of Memphis, who were used to NPR broadcasts on those stations.
WKNO signed on the air on June 25, 1956 as Tennessee's first public television outlet and is one of several independent non-commercial stations in the U.S. still in continuous operation. Its studios were first located in midtown Memphis, but relocated to the south campus of Memphis State University (now University of Memphis) sometime in the late 1970s. From 1968 to 1981, WLJT-TV, Lexington/Martin, Tenn., repeated WKNO's signal for viewers in the remainder of western Tennessee outside the Memphis metropolitan area, but afterward began broadcasting separate programming.
In November 2007 the local PBS affiliate in Memphis decided not to air the documentary Judgement Day (intelligent design) because of the "controversial nature" of the subject, but after receiving criticism has since promise to broadcast it in 2008.[1]
WKNO broadcasts its digital signal on channel 29.
WKNO/MSPCF also operates two FM public radio stations; see WKNO-FM.
- ^ "Topic too hot for WKNO: Show on intelligent design didn't air here", Commercial Appeal, 15 November 2007. Retrieved on 2007-11-17.
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| See also broadcast television in Jonesboro, Jackson TN, Greenwood / Greenville and Columbus/Tupelo/West Point markets |
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WETP 2 / WKOP 15 (Sneedville / Knoxville) - WNPT 8 (Nashville) - WKNO 10 (Memphis) - WLJT 11 (Lexington) - WCTE 22 (Cookeville) - WTCI 45 (Chattanooga) |
| See also: ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, ION, MyNetworkTV, NBC and Other stations in Tennessee |