WVLT-TV

WVLT-TV is a television station in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States, affiliated with CBS and MyNetworkTV. It is owned by Gray Media alongside Crossville-licensed dual CW/Telemundo affiliate WBXX-TV. The two stations share studios on Papermill Drive on the west side of Knoxville; WVLT-TV's transmitter is located on Sharp's Ridge in North Knoxville. WVLT-TV traces its history to Knoxville's second-oldest television station, which signed on in 1953 as WTSK-TV on channel 26. The original owners sold it in 1954 to Indiana-based radio company South Central Broadcasting, who changed channel 26's call letters to WTVK two years later. As an ultra high frequency station, it spent most of its first three decades on the air in a distant third place behind two very high frequency competitors. At various times, it was an affiliate of all three major networks, each of which at one point abandoned WTVK to affiliate with a VHF station. Due to the struggles of being a UHF station in a mountainous area, channel 26's owners sought to move to the VHF band on several occasions from the 1950s onward.