WVLR (TV)


WVLR is a religious television station licensed to Tazewell, Tennessee, United States, serving the Knoxville area as an owned-and-operated station of the Christian Television Network. The station's studios are located on Kyker Ferry Road in Kodak, and its transmitter is located on Clinch Mountain near Powder Springs in unincorporated Grainger County.

History

The station signed on October 6, 2002; it was added to East Tennessee cable systems in early 2003.

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's signal is multiplexed:
ChannelRes.AspectShort nameProgramming
48.11080i16:9WVLR-HDCTN
48.2480i4:3LifestyCTN Lifestyle
48.3480i4:3CTNiCTN International
48.4480i4:3CTNCTN SD
48.5480i16:9BIZ-TVBiz TV

Analog-to-digital conversion

WVLR shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 48, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States Digital television transition in [the United States|transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts] under federal mandate. The station "flash-cut" its digital signal into operation on UHF channel 48. Because it was granted an original construction permit after the FCC finalized the DTV allotment plan on April 21, 1997, WVLR did not receive a companion channel for a digital television station.