WLJT-DT is the Public Broadcasting Service

Public Broadcasting Service

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 (PBS) member station serving western and northwestern Tennessee

Tennessee

Tennessee is a U.S. state located in the Southeastern United States. It has a population of 6,346,105, making it the nation's 17th-largest state by population, and covers , making it the 36th-largest by total land area...

 on digital channel 47 (virtual channel

Virtual channel

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 11). Its studios are located on the campus of the University of Tennessee at Martin

University of Tennessee at Martin

The University of Tennessee at Martin is a campus in the University of Tennessee system. Other campuses include the flagship campus in Knoxville, the Chattanooga campus, the Center for the Health Sciences in Memphis, and the Space Institute in Tullahoma...

; its transmitter and tower are located in Lexington, Tennessee

Lexington, Tennessee

Lexington is a city in Henderson County, Tennessee, United States. Lexington is midway between Memphis and Nashville, lying ten miles south of Interstate 40, which connects the two cities. The population was 7,393 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Henderson County...

, its city of license

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.

WLJT began operations in February 1968, licensed originally to the state board of education to serve the schools of northwest Tennessee. For its first 13 years of broadcasting, it repeated the signal 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....

 station WKNO. 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; microwave links to the transmitter enabled WLJT to consolidate its entire operations in Martin afterward.

WLJT especially emphasizes programs of community interest, in large part because Memphis commercial broadcasters devote little attention to rural western Tennessee in newscasts and other local programming.

In February 2009, WLJT turned off its analog signal on channel 11, moving all operations to digital channel 47. However, the station's signal redirects to former analog channel 11 via PSIP.

Digital television

WLJT has three subchannels, which are organized in an unusual way. The station's main signal is located on its third subcarrier.

Channel	Programming
11.1	Create
11.2	PBS World PBS World PBS World is a 24-hour United States over-the-air digital subchannel showing public TV non-fiction, science, nature, news, public affairs and documentaries...
11.3	Main WLJT programming / PBS HD