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Channel 6 was East Tennessee's first television station, signing on the air at 8 p.m. on October 1, 1953, as WROL-TV. The race to be the first television station in the eastern part of the state was won by WROL-TV when the 300-foot (91 m) tower of WJHL-TV in Johnson City (ironically, now a sister station to the Knoxville station) collapsed a few months earlier.
News was one of the priority areas for the WKXT-TV relaunch, which included an entirely new main anchor team. [53] However, the station's newscasts continued to rate poorly. Facing an advertising slump, in 1991, channel 8 axed its 11 p.m. weeknight and weekend newscasts and fired 10 staffers; morning cut-ins and the noon and early evening ...
In 2001, Fox 43 ended its agreement with WVLT and entered into a similar contract with ABC-affiliated WATE-TV; channel 8 thought it was not financially feasible to continue, while WATE thought it was. [23] After 10 years, the WTNZ-WATE collaboration ended, and WTNZ entered into an agreement with NBC affiliate WBIR-TV to produce local news. On ...
WATE anchors were alarmed when they noticed a bat flying around the studio during a live. We've got an exclusive, first-look clip of the new "Batman" movie. Okay, not the movie, but a bat on live ...
Eventually, a news graphic appeared and transitioned into a new segment. The Twitter user @ShadowsofWolf_ shared Kapunda and Kaimu's moment and the clip now has almost 1 million views. "The face ...
The CW 20 News at 10 originated from WATE's studios in Camp House on North Broadway in the city's Old North Knoxville section. Starting on January 1, 2017, sister station WVLT-TV took over production of WBXX's newscasts from WATE which include the morning (7–9 a.m.) and prime time 10 p.m. newscasts.
The Dr. Bob Show, a popular East Tennessee PBS health program, began as a segment of LIVE at Five before expanding to a half-hour format. [20] Until late March 2011, WBIR-TV produced a 10 p.m. newscast for CW affiliate WBXX-TV. On March 28, WBIR-TV began producing a nightly 10 p.m. newscast for Fox affiliate WTNZ (channel 43).
Knoxville Police responded to a crash in the 3600 block of W. Martin Mill Pike near Chapman Highway just before 6 p.m. The motorcyclist, an adult male, was pronounced dead at the scene.