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| City | Greeneville, Tennessee |
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| Channels | |
| Branding | Fox 39 Tri-Cities |
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| Operator | Sinclair Broadcast Group |
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| History | |
First air date | November 4, 1985 |
Former call signs | WETO (1985–1989) |
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| Independent (1985–1986) | |
Call sign meaning | East Tennessee and former owner MT Communications, founded by Michael Thompson |
| Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 40761 |
| ERP | 1,000 kW |
| HAAT | 719.3 m (2,360 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 36°26′58.2″N 82°6′28.7″W / 36.449500°N 82.107972°W |
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Public license information | |
WEMT (channel 39) is a television station licensed to Greeneville, Tennessee, United States, serving as the Fox affiliate for the Tri-Cities area. It is owned by Cunningham Broadcasting, which maintains a local marketing agreement (LMA) with Sinclair Broadcast Group, owner of Bristol, Virginia–licensed dual NBC/CW affiliate WCYB-TV (channel 5), for the provision of certain services. However, Sinclair effectively owns WEMT; the majority of Cunningham's stock is owned by the family of deceased group founder Julian Smith. The two stations share studios on Lee Street on the Virginia side of Bristol (straddling the Virginia–Tennessee line); WEMT's transmitter is located at Rye Patch Knob on Holston Mountain in the Cherokee National Forest.
Channel 39 began in November 1985 as WETO ("East Tennessee's Own"), the market's first independent station, under local ownership and with studios and offices in Greeneville. WETO affiliated with Fox the next year, but the undercapitalized local owners sold the station in 1989 to MT Communications, which changed the call letters to WEMT. The station was sold again in 1992; it moved its studios to Johnson City, Tennessee. In 2006, then-WCYB-TV owner BlueStone Television acquired the station's non-license assets, while another group purchased the license; WCYB-TV has operated WEMT ever since under three different group owners. The WCYB newsroom produces a 10 p.m. newscast for WEMT.
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for WEMT". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.