WKNO (channel 10) is a

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, United States. The station is owned by the Mid-South Public Communications Foundation, a

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governed by a board of trustees composed of volunteers, and is operated alongside

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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

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Shelby County.

History

The station first signed on the air on June 25, 1956 as Tennessee's first

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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

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); 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

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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 ''

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'' and other programs by

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, '' Classic Gospel'', ''

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Sessions'', and ''

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''.

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's digital signal is

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Analog-to-digital conversion

WKNO discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over

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channel 10, on May 1, 2009.List of Digital Full-Power Stations
/ref> The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition

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channel 29, using

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to display WKNO's

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as 10 on digital television receivers.

References

External links

Official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Wkno (Tv) KNO (TV) PBS member stations Television channels and stations established in 1956 1956 establishments in Tennessee