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List Of Television Stations In Mississippi
This is a list of broadcast television stations that are licensed in the U.S. state of Mississippi. Full-power stations VC refers to the station's PSIP virtual channel. RF refers to the station's physical RF channel. Defunct full-power stations *Channel 3: WLBT (original license) - NBC - Jackson (12/19/1953-6/2/1971) *Channel 12: WSLI-TV - ABC - Jackson (3/15/1954-5/31/1955, merged with WJTV ch. 25) *Channel 24: WHTV (original incarnation) - CBS/ABC - Meridian (6/10/1968-10/13/1970) *Channel 30: WCOC-TV - Meridian (12/?/1953-7/30/1954) *Channel 45: WKDH - ABC - Houston (6/18/2001–8/31/2012) LPTV stations Translators Cable-only stations * Piedmont CW - The CW - Greenwood * The Gospel Broadcasting Network - GBN - Olive Branch *HCN (Hill Country Network) - HCN - New Albany See also * Mississippi media ** List of newspapers in Mississippi ** List of radio stations in Mississippi ** Media of locales in Mississippi: Biloxi, Gulfport, Hattiesburg, Jackson References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mississippi
Mississippi () is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States, bordered to the north by Tennessee; to the east by Alabama; to the south by the Gulf of Mexico; to the southwest by Louisiana; and to the northwest by Arkansas. Mississippi's western boundary is largely defined by the Mississippi River. Mississippi is the 32nd largest and 35th-most populous of the 50 U.S. states and has the lowest per-capita income in the United States. Jackson is both the state's capital and largest city. Greater Jackson is the state's most populous metropolitan area, with a population of 591,978 in 2020. On December 10, 1817, Mississippi became the 20th state admitted to the Union. By 1860, Mississippi was the nation's top cotton-producing state and slaves accounted for 55% of the state population. Mississippi declared its secession from the Union on January 9, 1861, and was one of the seven original Confederate States, which constituted the largest slaveholding states in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WXXV-TV
WXXV-TV (channel 25) is a television station licensed to Gulfport, Mississippi, United States, serving the Mississippi Gulf Coast as an affiliate of Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox, MyNetworkTV, NBC and The CW Plus. The station is owned by Morris Multimedia, and maintains studios on U.S. Route 49#Mississippi, US 49 in Lyman, Mississippi, Lyman (with a Gulfport United States Postal Service, postal address); its transmitter is located on Wire Road East, in unincorporated area#United States, unincorporated Stone County, Mississippi, Stone County, northeast of McHenry, Mississippi, McHenry. History The station signed on Valentine's Day, February 14, 1987 in television, 1987, as the media market, market's second commercial outlet (after American Broadcasting Company, ABC affiliate WLOX). It was originally locally owned by Gulf Coast Television Ltd. Airing an analog television, analog signal on UHF channel 25, WXXV immediately joined Fox as Mississippi's first Fox affiliate. For the firs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tri-State Christian Television
Tri-State Christian Television, Inc., doing business as TCT Network and TCT Ministries, is a religious television network in the United States. The network was founded in May 1977 by Garth Coonce and his wife, Tina Coonce. TCT Network includes traditional televangelism, talk shows, children-oriented programming such as '' TCT Kids'' (used to meet E/I mandates), Southern gospel music, and feature films with Christian themes. TCT has an international service, ''TCT World'', which broadcasts in over 170 countries. From the mid-1980s to 2007, TCT was an affiliate of the Trinity Broadcasting Network. The network currently maintains a relationship with the Christian Broadcasting Network, airing that network's flagship program ''The 700 Club'' twice daily as well as CBN's nightly newscast. From 2011 to 2013, TCT operated a Spanish-language sub-channel which was available both online and over the air on TCT stations called La Fuente. This subchannel was ultimately discontinued, but rea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WFXW
WFXW (channel 15) is a religious television station in Greenville, Mississippi, United States, owned and operated by Tri-State Christian Television (TCT). The station's transmitter is located northeast of Shaw, Mississippi. From 1980 to 2016, the station broadcast as CBS affiliate WXVT. History Its first broadcast was on November 7, 1980, under the call sign WXVT. It had been a CBS affiliate for its entire existence. Before this, WJTV in Jackson had served as the default affiliate. The station was originally owned by Big River Broadcasting. Future sister station WABG-TV (channel 6, now a dual ABC/ Fox affiliate) was actually the Delta's original CBS affiliate when it launched back in October 1959. However, a few months later, WJTV complained that WABG was encroaching on its service area. This is because WABG's signal reaches the far northern fringes of the Jackson market. Big River Broadcasting sold the station to Lamco Communications in 1984. Lamco then sold WXVT to a loca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greenville, Mississippi
Greenville is a city in and the county seat of Washington County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 34,400 at the 2010 census. It is located in the area of historic cotton plantations and culture known as the Mississippi Delta. History Early history This area was occupied by indigenous peoples for thousands of years. When the French explored here, they encountered the historic Natchez people. As part of their colony known as ''La Louisiane'', the French established a settlement at what became Natchez, Mississippi. Other Native American tribes also lived in what is now known as Mississippi. The current city of Greenville is the third in the State to bear the name. The first, (known as Old Greenville) located to the south near Natchez, became defunct soon after the American Revolution, as European-American settlement was then still concentrated in the eastern states. The second Greenville was founded in 1824 by American William W. Blanton, who filed for land from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WABG-TV
WABG-TV (channel 6) is a television station licensed to Greenwood, Mississippi, United States, serving the Delta area as an affiliate of ABC and Fox. It is owned by Imagicomm Communications alongside two low-power stations: Grenada-licensed NBC affiliate WNBD-LD (channel 33) and Cleveland-licensed CBS affiliate WXVT-LD (channel 17). The three stations share studios on Washington Avenue in Greenville; WABG-TV's transmitter is located northeast of Inverness, Mississippi. History WABG-TV's first broadcast was on October 20, 1959 on VHF channel 6. Originally it was a CBS affiliate, with a secondary affiliation with ABC owing to WABG radio (960 AM)'s affiliation with ABC Radio. In 1966, the station built a tower near Inverness and increased its effective radiated power to 100,000 watts. Following its completion in October 1966, WABG dropped CBS to become a full-time ABC affiliate in November 1966. Until then, the only areas of the state to receive a sole ABC affiliate were the nor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greenwood, Mississippi
Greenwood is a city in and the county seat of Leflore County, Mississippi, United States, located at the eastern edge of the Mississippi Delta region, approximately 96 miles north of the state capital, Jackson, and 130 miles south of the riverport of Memphis, Tennessee. It was a center of cotton planter culture in the 19th century. The population was 15,205 at the 2010 census. It is the principal city of the Greenwood Micropolitan Statistical Area. Greenwood developed at the confluence of the Tallahatchie and the Yalobusha rivers, which form the Yazoo River. History Native Americans The flood plain of the Mississippi River has long been an area rich in vegetation and wildlife, fed by the Mississippi and its numerous tributaries. Long before Europeans migrated to America, the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indian nations settled in the Delta's bottomlands and throughout what is now central Mississippi. They were descended from indigenous peoples who had lived in the area for tho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WAMU
WAMU (88.5 FM) is a public news/talk station that services the greater Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. It is owned by American University, and its studios are located near the campus in northwest Washington. WAMU has been the primary National Public Radio member station for Washington since 2007. History WAMU began as an AM carrier-current student radio station, signing on July 28, 1951 on , before shifting to in March 1952 and in November 1952. Although carrier-current stations are not granted a license or call sign by the FCC, it used "WAMU" as a familiar form of identification. The station aired a wide range of student-produced programming including music, news, sports, radio dramas, and debates. The station was heralded as a rebirth of the university's prior radio station, WAMC, which operated on for about two years starting on January 15, 1947, broadcasting with a 50-watt transmitter as part of a plan to offer a full range of radio and television courses at American U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bude, Mississippi
Bude is a town in Franklin County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 1,063 at the 2010 census. Bude is located on the north bank of the Homochitto River, which bisects the county on a diagonal running from northeast to southwest, where it flows on its way to the Mississippi River. U.S. Routes 98 and 84 run by Bude. American Railcar Industries operates a large maintenance shop in Bude. Bude appeared in a March 2017 segment of ''60 Minutes'' because its chess team won the state championship. (Bude is shown in the 60 Minutes story, which is clickable from this source) History Bude was founded by European Americans in 1912 and named for the former home in England of Mrs. F.L. Peck, whose husband was one of the town's founders. Geography Bude is located in central Franklin County. It is east of Meadville, the county seat. US 84 leads east to Brookhaven, and US 98 leads southeast to McComb. The two highways together lead west to Natchez. According to the United ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
