WVLT-TV

WVLT-TV
Brand	WVLT Volunteer TV
City of License	Knoxville, Tennessee
Market	Knoxville, Tennessee
Channel	34 digital 8 virtual Formerly: 26 analog (1953-88) 8 analog (1988-2009) 30 digital (2000-19)
Network Affiliation	Current: CBS Historic: DuMont (1953-1955, secondary) ABC (1953-1980) NBC (1980-1988) UPN (1995-2006, secondary)
Founded	October 1, 1953
Company	Gray Television
President
Current Popular Non-Network Shows	Live with Kelly and Mark Entertainment Tonight The Dr. Oz Show The Andy Griffith Show Inside Edition The Kelly Clarkson Show

WVLT-TV is a local station based in Knoxville, Tennessee that broadcasts on digital channel 34, displayed on tuners as virtual channel 8. It is Knoxville's CBS affiliate. Its subcarrier, 34.2, airs My Network TV shows.

The station first signed on in 1953 as WSKT/channel 26, airing CBS as primary and ABC as secondary (WROL/channel 6, now WATE was NBC as primary and shared secondary with ABC). Its signal over the Rocky Mountains did not travel well, and even as such, TV tuners were not required to have UHF tuners. In 1956, CBS moved its affiliation to WBIR/channel 10 (now NBC), and WSKT took up ABC affiliation. Under new ownership, its call was changed to WTVK.

WTVK switched networks again in 1979, becoming an NBC affiliate while ratings-leader ABC moved to WATE. CBS returned to the station in 1988 after it won the remaining channel allocation left, channel 8, and moved there. NBC moved to WBIR. It was WKXT up until 1997, and then changed to WVLT. Channel 26 has remained unused since the move to channel 8. From 1995 to 2006, the station had UPN under secondary affiliation and then as its digital subcarrier.

WVLT began digital transmissions on RF channel 30 in 2000. It moved to RF channel 34 on September 5, 2019 as a result of the spectrum auction.

Digital programming

Virtual	Physical	Name	Programming
8.1	34.1	WVLT-DT	Main WVLT (CBS)
8.2	34.2	WVLT-DT2	MyNetwork TV

External Sites

• Official Site