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City | Lexington, Tennessee |
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Branding | West TN PBS |
Programming | |
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Ownership | |
Owner | West Tennessee Public Television Council, Inc. |
History | |
First air date | February 13, 1968 |
Former call signs | WLJT (1968–2010) |
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Call sign meaning | Lexington Jackson Tennessee |
Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
Facility ID | 71645 |
ERP | 142 kW |
HAAT | 205 m (673 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 35°42′12″N 88°36′10″W / 35.70333°N 88.60278°W |
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Public license information | |
Website | www |
WLJT-DT (channel 11), branded West TN PBS, is a PBS member television station licensed to Lexington, Tennessee, United States, serving western and northwestern Tennessee. The station is owned by the West Tennessee Public Television Council and maintains studios in Martin on rented space at the University of Tennessee at Martin; its transmitter is located on U.S. Route 412 midway between Jackson and Lexington.
WLJT began broadcasting in 1968. Built as one of four educational stations under the control of the Tennessee Department of Education, it almost exclusively rebroadcast WKNO in Memphis. In 1981, studios were established at UT–Martin, allowing for the station to begin local programming. That same year, the state began the process to spin WLJT out to community control. The station's local programming focuses on sports and community events in rural West Tennessee.