WJKT
Encyclopedia
WJKT is the Fox-affiliated television station
for Western Tennessee licensed to Jackson
. It broadcasts a high definition
digital signal on UHF channel 39 (or virtual channel
16.1 via PSIP) from a transmitter in Alamo
. It can also be seen on Charter
channel 9 and Jackson Energy Authority Broadband channel 12. There is a high definition feed offered on Jackson Energy Authority Broadband digital channel 204 and Charter digital channel 716. Owned by Newport Television
, the station maintains a local advertising sales office on Oil Well Road in Jackson.
However, master control
and most internal operations for WJKT are based out of the studios of sister stations ABC
affiliate WPTY-TV
and CW affiliate WLMT
on Union Avenue Extension along Poplar Avenue/US 72
/TN 57
in the Midtown
section of Memphis
. Syndicated
programming on this station includes Two and a Half Men
, How I Met Your Mother
, My Name is Earl
and Judge Judy
among others. Fox owned-and-operated station WHBQ-TV
in Memphis has an over-the-air signal that reaches just short of Jackson proper. That outlet is also offered on Charter and Jackson Energy Authority Broadband channel 13 (as well as in HD on the latter system on digital channel 189).
.
and WLJT
). It was owned by MT Communications. It aired an analog signal on UHF channel 16 and was the area's first Independent. It would join Fox for the first time in April 1987. After MT Broadcasting bought WCAY Nashville (renaming it WXMT) and buying WMKW (now WLMT) in Memphis, WMTU began mostly simulcasting WMKW/WLMT.
WJWT became WMTU on January 8, 1990 and during that year Fox pulled its affiliation from WLMT and gave it to WPTY. However, WMTU retained its Fox affiliation, though outside of the network programming the two stations continued to simulcast. When Clear Channel Communications
began programming WLMT in 1992, the LMA included WMTU as well.
The two stations became charter UPN
affiliates on January 16, 1995. However, WMTU remained a primary Fox affiliate until its acquisition of WHBQ-TV
in Memphis that November, at which point the station reverted to being a full semi-satellite of WLMT. To reflect its status as a Jackson station, channel 16 changed its calls to WJKT on September 17, 2001; around the same time, Clear Channel bought it and WLMT outright. In 2003, programming from The WB
moved from WPTY (where it was airing in a secondary nature during late night time slots) to WLMT/WJKT where it also aired out of pattern. That May, after a tornado
, the station's studios moved from a location shared with TotalReach Television, a local production company located in Downtown Jackson, to a facility on Radio Road in Jackson shared with Clear Channel's Jackson radio stations (which were later sold to Forever Communications).
On January 24, 2006, The WB and UPN announced the two networks would cease broadcasting and merge to form The CW. WJKT declined to affiliate with The CW or MyNetworkTV
, choosing instead to rejoin Fox on August 21. Meanwhile, WLMT began broadcasting The CW on September 18; it serves as the default over-the-air affiliate for Jackson, since cable-only The WB 100+
outlet "WBJK" joined The CW Plus
. After WJKT, along with the rest of Clear Channel's television group, was purchased by Newport Television in 2008, local offices were relocated to Oil Well Road.
. However, unlike most Fox affiliates, it does not operate a local news department of its own. The station does simulcast a nightly 45 minute prime time newscast from WLMT. Produced by WPTY, this is followed by a fifteen minute sports highlight program. Although most coverage presented focuses on the greater Memphis area, WPTY will cover the Jackson area during severe weather
events.
Anchors
Reporters
Television station
A television station is a business, organisation or other such as an amateur television operator that transmits content over terrestrial television. A television transmission can be by analog television signals or, more recently, by digital television. Broadcast television systems standards are...
for Western Tennessee licensed to Jackson
Jackson, Tennessee
Jackson is a city in Madison County, Tennessee, United States. The total population was 65,211 at the 2010 census. Jackson is the primary city of the Jackson, Tennessee metropolitan area, which is included in the Jackson-Humboldt, Tennessee Combined Statistical Area...
. It broadcasts a high definition
High-definition television
High-definition television is video that has resolution substantially higher than that of traditional television systems . HDTV has one or two million pixels per frame, roughly five times that of SD...
digital signal on UHF channel 39 (or virtual channel
Virtual channel
In telecommunications, a logical channel number , also known as virtual channel, is a channel designation which differs from that of the actual radio channel on which the signal travels....
16.1 via PSIP) from a transmitter in Alamo
Alamo, Tennessee
Alamo, Tennessee, is a town in Crockett County, Tennessee. Its population was 2,461 at the time of the 2010 U.S. Census. Alamo, for interesting historical reasons, is the county seat of Crockett County, Tennessee...
. It can also be seen on Charter
Charter Communications
Charter Communications is an American company providing cable television, high-speed Internet, and telephone services to more than 4.7 million customers in 25 states. By revenues, it is the fourth-largest cable operator in the United States, behind Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Cox Communications...
channel 9 and Jackson Energy Authority Broadband channel 12. There is a high definition feed offered on Jackson Energy Authority Broadband digital channel 204 and Charter digital channel 716. Owned by Newport Television
Newport Television
Newport Television, LLC is a television station holding company founded by Providence Equity Partners and Sandy DiPasquale in 2007 to acquire the television stations owned by Clear Channel Communications. In September 2007, Newport agreed to sell KFTY and KVOS-TV to LK Station Group LLC for $26.6...
, the station maintains a local advertising sales office on Oil Well Road in Jackson.
However, master control
Master control
Master control is the technical hub of a broadcast operation common among most over-the-air television stations and television networks. It is distinct from a production control room in television studios where the activities such as switching from camera to camera are coordinated...
and most internal operations for WJKT are based out of the studios of sister stations ABC
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
affiliate WPTY-TV
WPTY-TV
WPTY-TV is the ABC-affiliated television station for west Tennessee that is licensed to Memphis. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 25 from a transmitter in the Brunswick section of Arlington. Owned by Newport Television, the station is sister to CW affiliate WLMT and Fox...
and CW affiliate WLMT
WLMT
WLMT is the CW-affiliated television station for Western Tennessee licensed to Memphis. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 31 from a transmitter in Arlington's Brunswick section. The station can also be seen on Comcast channel 9 and in high definition on digital channel...
on Union Avenue Extension along Poplar Avenue/US 72
U.S. Route 72
U.S. Route 72 is an east–west United States highway that runs for 337 miles from southeast Tennessee through northern Alabama and northern Mississippi to southwest Tennessee. The highway's eastern terminus is Chattanooga, Tennessee. Its western terminus is Memphis, Tennessee...
/TN 57
Tennessee State Route 57
Tennessee State Route 57 is an east–west highway that runs from Memphis to the Mississippi state line near Pickwick Dam and Pickwick Landing State Park. Except for in Shelby County, SR 57 is a two lane road generally with a speed limit...
in the Midtown
Midtown, Memphis
- Overview :Architecturally, Midtown Memphis, Tennessee is marked with residential vintage housing, specialty stores, and high-rise buildings, often all located on the same avenue...
section of Memphis
Memphis, Tennessee
Memphis is a city in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Shelby County. The city is located on the 4th Chickasaw Bluff, south of the confluence of the Wolf and Mississippi rivers....
. Syndicated
Television syndication
In broadcasting, syndication is the sale of the right to broadcast radio shows and television shows by multiple radio stations and television stations, without going through a broadcast network, though the process of syndication may conjure up structures like those of a network itself, by its very...
programming on this station includes Two and a Half Men
Two and a Half Men
Two and a Half Men is an American television sitcom that premiered on CBS on September 22, 2003. Starring Charlie Sheen, Jon Cryer, and Angus T. Jones, the show was originally about a hedonistic jingle writer, Charlie Harper; his uptight brother, Alan; and Alan's growing son, Jake...
, How I Met Your Mother
How I Met Your Mother
How I Met Your Mother is an American sitcom that premiered on CBS on September 19, 2005, created by Craig Thomas and Carter Bays.As a framing device, the main character, Ted Mosby with narration by Bob Saget, in the year 2030 recounts to his son and daughter the events that led to his meeting...
, My Name is Earl
My Name Is Earl
My Name Is Earl is an American television comedy series created by Greg Garcia that was originally broadcast on the NBC television network from September 20, 2005, to May 14, 2009, in the United States...
and Judge Judy
Judge Judy
Judge Judy is an American court show featuring former family court judge Judith Sheindlin arbitrating over small claims cases in small claims court...
among others. Fox owned-and-operated station WHBQ-TV
WHBQ-TV
WHBQ-TV, channel 13, is an owned-and-operated television station of the News Corporation-owned Fox Broadcasting Company, located in Memphis, Tennessee. Its studios and transmitter are located in Memphis.-Under RKO General:...
in Memphis has an over-the-air signal that reaches just short of Jackson proper. That outlet is also offered on Charter and Jackson Energy Authority Broadband channel 13 (as well as in HD on the latter system on digital channel 189).
Digital programming
WJKT-DT2 and Jackson Energy Authority Broadband digital channel 194 is TheCoolTVTheCoolTV
THECOOLTV is a United States over-the-air digital subchannel launched in March 2009. The network's current program schedule consists of an all-music video lineup that can be customized to meet an affiliate's preference, along with the three hours per week of E/I programming as required by the...
.
| Channels (virtual/physical) | Name | Video Display resolution The display resolution of a digital television or display device is the number of distinct pixels in each dimension that can be displayed. It can be an ambiguous term especially as the displayed resolution is controlled by all different factors in cathode ray tube , flat panel or projection... |
Aspect Aspect ratio The aspect ratio of a shape is the ratio of its longer dimension to its shorter dimension. It may be applied to two characteristic dimensions of a three-dimensional shape, such as the ratio of the longest and shortest axis, or for symmetrical objects that are described by just two measurements,... |
Programming |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16.1/39.1 | WJKT-HD | 720p 720p 720p is the shorthand name for 1280x720, a category of High-definition television video modes having a resolution of 1080 or 720p and a progressive scan... |
16:9 16:9 16:9 is an aspect ratio with a width of 16 units and height of 9. Since 2009, it has become the most common aspect ratio for sold televisions and computer monitors and is also the international standard format of HDTV, Full HD, non-HD digital television and analog widescreen television ... |
main WJKT programming/Fox (HD) |
| 16.2/39.2 | WJKT-DT2 | 480i 480i 480i is the shorthand name for a video mode, namely the US NTSC television system or digital television systems with the same characteristics. The i, which is sometimes uppercase, stands for interlaced, the 480 for a vertical frame resolution of 480 lines containing picture information; while NTSC... |
4:3 | TheCoolTV (SD) |
History
WJKT station signed-on April 10, 1985 as WJWT and was Jackson's third television station (after WDXI-TV now WBBJ-TVWBBJ-TV
WBBJ-TV is the ABC-affiliated television station for Western Tennessee licensed to Jackson. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 43 from a transmitter on Potts Chapel Road in unincorporated Eastern Madison County. The station can also be seen on Charter channel 7 and...
and WLJT
WLJT
WLJT-DT is the Public Broadcasting Service member station serving western and northwestern Tennessee on digital channel 47...
). It was owned by MT Communications. It aired an analog signal on UHF channel 16 and was the area's first Independent. It would join Fox for the first time in April 1987. After MT Broadcasting bought WCAY Nashville (renaming it WXMT) and buying WMKW (now WLMT) in Memphis, WMTU began mostly simulcasting WMKW/WLMT.
WJWT became WMTU on January 8, 1990 and during that year Fox pulled its affiliation from WLMT and gave it to WPTY. However, WMTU retained its Fox affiliation, though outside of the network programming the two stations continued to simulcast. When Clear Channel Communications
Clear Channel Communications
Clear Channel Communications, Inc. is an American media conglomerate company headquartered in San Antonio, Texas. It was founded in 1972 by Lowry Mays and Red McCombs, and was taken private by Bain Capital LLC and Thomas H. Lee Partners LP in a leveraged buyout in 2008...
began programming WLMT in 1992, the LMA included WMTU as well.
The two stations became charter UPN
UPN
United Paramount Network was a television network that was broadcast in over 200 markets in the United States from 1995 to 2006. UPN was originally owned by Viacom/Paramount and Chris-Craft Industries, the former of which, through the Paramount Television Group, produced most of the network's...
affiliates on January 16, 1995. However, WMTU remained a primary Fox affiliate until its acquisition of WHBQ-TV
WHBQ-TV
WHBQ-TV, channel 13, is an owned-and-operated television station of the News Corporation-owned Fox Broadcasting Company, located in Memphis, Tennessee. Its studios and transmitter are located in Memphis.-Under RKO General:...
in Memphis that November, at which point the station reverted to being a full semi-satellite of WLMT. To reflect its status as a Jackson station, channel 16 changed its calls to WJKT on September 17, 2001; around the same time, Clear Channel bought it and WLMT outright. In 2003, programming from The WB
The WB Television Network
The WB Television Network is a former television network in the United States that was launched on January 11, 1995 as a joint venture between Warner Bros. and Tribune Broadcasting. On January 24, 2006, CBS Corporation and Warner Bros...
moved from WPTY (where it was airing in a secondary nature during late night time slots) to WLMT/WJKT where it also aired out of pattern. That May, after a tornado
Tornado
A tornado is a violent, dangerous, rotating column of air that is in contact with both the surface of the earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud. They are often referred to as a twister or a cyclone, although the word cyclone is used in meteorology in a wider...
, the station's studios moved from a location shared with TotalReach Television, a local production company located in Downtown Jackson, to a facility on Radio Road in Jackson shared with Clear Channel's Jackson radio stations (which were later sold to Forever Communications).
On January 24, 2006, The WB and UPN announced the two networks would cease broadcasting and merge to form The CW. WJKT declined to affiliate with The CW or MyNetworkTV
MyNetworkTV
MyNetworkTV is a television broadcast syndication service in the United States, owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, a division of News Corporation...
, choosing instead to rejoin Fox on August 21. Meanwhile, WLMT began broadcasting The CW on September 18; it serves as the default over-the-air affiliate for Jackson, since cable-only The WB 100+
The WB 100+ Station Group
The WB 100+ Station Group was a group of primarily non-broadcast local cable television outlets for The WB Television Network, for markets below the top 100 television media markets in the United States. Dayparts with no WB programming were programmed by the network...
outlet "WBJK" joined The CW Plus
The CW Plus
The CW Plus is a group of primarily digital sub-channels, analog, and non-broadcast cable television outlets for the CW Television Network, for markets below the top 99 television media markets in the United States....
. After WJKT, along with the rest of Clear Channel's television group, was purchased by Newport Television in 2008, local offices were relocated to Oil Well Road.
Newscasts
WJKT airs all national breaking news coverage from Fox News and the network's weekly public affairs showFox News Sunday
Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace is a public affairs program on the Fox network, hosted by Chris Wallace and airing on Sunday mornings. The show began on April 28, 1996, which predated the launch of Fox News Channel, and usually talks about items similar to Sunday morning talk shows...
. However, unlike most Fox affiliates, it does not operate a local news department of its own. The station does simulcast a nightly 45 minute prime time newscast from WLMT. Produced by WPTY, this is followed by a fifteen minute sports highlight program. Although most coverage presented focuses on the greater Memphis area, WPTY will cover the Jackson area during severe weather
Severe weather
Severe weather phenomena are weather conditions that are hazardous to human life and property.- Examples Include :Severe weather can occur under a variety of situations, but three characteristics are generally needed: a temperature or moisture boundary, moisture, and , instability in the...
events.
Anchors
- Cameron Harper - weeknight news
- Jeff Beimfohr - weekend news and reporter
- Mark Walden (CBMCertified Broadcast MeteorologistCertified Broadcast Meteorologist is a rating for meteorologists given by the American Meteorological Society.The Certified Broadcast Meteorologist program was established to raise the professional standard in broadcast meteorology and encourage a broader range of scientific understanding,...
and NWANational Weather AssociationThe National Weather Association is an American professional association with a mission to support and promote excellence in operational meteorology and related activities...
Seals of Approval) - Chief Meteorologist seen weeknights - Lauren Raymer - weekend meteorologist
- Corey Maclin - weeknight sports
- Kathy Morris - weekend sports and sports reporter
Reporters
- Shelley Orman - MississippiMississippiMississippi is a U.S. state located in the Southern United States. Jackson is the state capital and largest city. The name of the state derives from the Mississippi River, which flows along its western boundary, whose name comes from the Ojibwe word misi-ziibi...
- Rodney Dunigan
- Randy Wimbley
- Joyce Peterson
- Jackie Orozco
- Shelvia Dancy
- Jeni DiPrizio
- Joy Lambert
- April Norris
- Eli Ross