WLJT-DT

WLJT-DT, virtual channel 11 (UHF digital channel 27), branded on-air as West TN PBS, is a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) member television station licensed to Lexington, Tennessee, United States and serving western and northwestern Tennessee. The station is owned by the West Tennessee Public Television Council. WLJT's studios are located in Martin on rented space at the University of Tennessee at Martin; its transmitter is located on U.S. Route 412 midway between Jackson and Lexington.

WLJT-DT
Lexington/Martin/Jackson, Tennessee
United States
CityLexington, Tennessee
ChannelsDigital: 27 (UHF)
Virtual: 11 (PSIP)
BrandingWest TN PBS
Programming
Affiliations11.1: PBS (1970–present)
11.2: PBS Kids
11.3: Create
Ownership
OwnerWest Tennessee Public Television Council, Inc.
History
First air dateFebruary 13, 1968 (1968-02-13)
Former channel number(s)Analog:
11 (VHF (1968–2009)
Digital:
47 (UHF, 2009–2018)
Former affiliationsNET (as a satellite of WKNO; 1968–1970)
DT2: World (until 2017)
Call sign meaningLexington
Jackson
Tennessee
Technical information
Licensing authorityFCC
Facility ID71645
ClassDT
ERP142 kW
HAAT205 m (673 ft)
Transmitter coordinates35°42′12″N 88°36′10″W
Links
Public license informationProfile
LMS
Websitewww.westtnpbs.org

History
Logo used until early 2020.

WLJT began operations on February 13, 1968. It was originally operated by the Tennessee Department of Education as a service to the schools of western Tennessee. At the time, this region was considered too small and too rural to support a full-fledged traditional educational station. As such, for its first 13 years of broadcasting, it repeated the signal of Memphis station WKNO (channel 10), via contract, since WKNO was not, unlike WLJT, operated by the state. In 1981, the station inaugurated a separate schedule, including programs of local interest. A few years later, the state education board relinquished the license to a local community board, the West Tennessee Public Television Council. Until 1993, administrative offices were located in Martin, while the technical staff worked in Lexington, some 60 miles (97 km) away; microwave links to the transmitter enabled WLJT to consolidate its entire operation in Martin afterward.

WLJT especially emphasizes programs of community interest, in large part because commercial broadcasters in Memphis and Paducah, Kentucky devote little attention to rural western Tennessee in newscasts and other local programming. The only commercial news operation in the market explicitly devoted to the area is Jackson ABC affiliate WBBJ-TV (channel 7).

After the digital transition on February 17, 2009, WLJT discontinued transmitting on its analog signal, continuing to operate on digital channel 47. However, digital tuners with PSIP display its virtual channel as "11". WLJT-DT moved to digital channel 27 effective August 10, 2018.

Digital channels

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Channel Video Aspect PSIP short name Programming [1]
11.11080i16:9WLJT-HDMain WLJT-DT programming / PBS
11.2480iWLJT-DTPBS Kids
11.34:3Create
gollark: The obvious solution is to just stop using paper here.
gollark: Humans can process language without much intellectual effort too after a long training phase, but it takes large amounts of expensive (cheaper than humans by a lot actually) GPU power and training data to do those things.
gollark: Stuff like repetitive tasks, adding large columns of numbers, etc, are hard for humans (we get bored and can't do maths very efficiently), but computers can happily do them easily.
gollark: You could probably replace a significant amount of office workers with some SQL queries and possibly language model things.
gollark: Humans don't realize this because brains will happily do it with zero intellectual effort.

References
  1. http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=WLJT-DT#station
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