WVLR
WVLR (channel 48) is a religious television station licensed to Tazewell, Tennessee, United States, serving the Knoxville area as an owned-and-operated station of the Christian Television Network (CTN). The station's studios are located on Kyker Ferry Road in Kodak, and its transmitter is located on Clinch Mountain near Powder Springs in unincorporated Grainger County.
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| City | Tazewell, Tennessee |
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| Affiliations | 48.1: CTN 48.2: CTN Lifestyle 48.3: CTNi 48.4: CTN SD |
| Ownership | |
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| History | |
First air date | October 6, 2002 |
Former channel number(s) | Analog: 48 (UHF, 2002–2009) Digital: 48 (UHF, 2009–2020) |
Call sign meaning | Volunteer Christian Television |
| Technical information | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 81750 |
| ERP | 798 kW |
| HAAT | 430 m (1,411 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 36°15′30.3″N 83°37′42.6″W |
| Links | |
Public license information | |
| Website | wvlr-tv |
History
The station signed on October 6, 2002.
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
| Channel | Video | Aspect | Short name | Programming[1] |
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| 48.1 | 1080i | 16:9 | WVLR-HD | CTN |
| 48.2 | 480i | 4:3 | LIFESTY | CTN Lifestyle |
| 48.3 | CTNI | CTNi (Spanish) | ||
| 48.4 | CTN | CTN SD |
Analog-to-digital conversion
WVLR shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 48, on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station "flash-cut" its digital signal into operation on UHF channel 48.[2] Because it was granted an original construction permit after the FCC finalized the DTV allotment plan on April 21, 1997,[3] WVLR did not receive a companion channel for a digital television station.