WKNO (channel 10) is a
PBS member
television station in
Memphis, Tennessee, United States. The station is owned by the Mid-South Public Communications Foundation, a
non-profit organization governed by a board of trustees composed of volunteers, and is operated alongside
NPR member
WKNO-FM
The WKNO FM Stations is a pair of public radio stations based in Memphis, Tennessee, that serve the "Mid-South" region with local fine arts and classical music programs, as well as news and information programs from the National Public Radio, ...
(91.1). The two stations share studios on Cherry Farms Road with the TV station's transmitter on Raleigh LaGrange Road, both in the
Cordova section of
unincorporated Shelby County.
History
The station first signed on the air on June 25, 1956 as Tennessee's first
public television outlet. Its studios were first located in midtown Memphis, but would move several years later to rented space on the campus of Memphis State University (now the
University of Memphis); in 1979, the studios were relocated a few blocks to the south, to the southern annex of the MSU campus on Getwell Road. That facility served the station for 30 years until November 2009, when the station moved into a custom-designed all-digital studio facility in Cordova.
From 1968 to 1981, WKNO's programming was repeated on
WLJT in
Lexington for viewers in the remainder of western Tennessee outside the Memphis metropolitan area. Afterward, that station eventually began broadcasting a separate programming schedule, including programming of local interest to that region.
Programming
Nationally distributed programming produced or presented by WKNO includes ''
Travels & Traditions
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'' and other programs by
Burt Wolf, ''
Classic Gospel'', ''
Sun Studio Sessions'', and ''
GardenSMART''.
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is
multiplexed:
Analog-to-digital conversion
WKNO discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over
VHF
Very high frequency (VHF) is the ITU designation for the range of radio frequency electromagnetic waves (radio waves) from 30 to 300 megahertz (MHz), with corresponding wavelengths of ten meters to one meter.
Frequencies immediately below VHF ...
channel 10, on May 1, 2009.
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/ref> The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF
Ultra high frequency (UHF) is the ITU designation for radio frequencies in the range between 300 megahertz (MHz) and 3 gigahertz (GHz), also known as the decimetre band as the wavelengths range from one meter to one tenth of a meter (on ...
channel 29, using PSIP to display WKNO's virtual channel as 10 on digital television receivers.
References
External links
Official website
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PBS member stations
Television channels and stations established in 1956
1956 establishments in Tennessee