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WKRN-TV channel 2 is the ABC affiliate in Nashville, Tennessee. Its transmitter is located in Brentwood, Tennessee. It brands itself as News 2.

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History

The station signed on the air on November 29, 1953 as WSIX-TV, the second television station in Nashville. It broadcast on channel 8 and was owned by Louis and Jack Draughon, along with WSIX-AM 980 (now WFYN-AM, a religious station). The calls came from the 638 Tire Company in nearby Springfield, Tenn., where the Draughon brothers had started WSIX-AM in 1930; neither the radio nor the television stations have ever had the number six in their frequencies, which would explain it otherwise. Originally a CBS affiliate sharing ABC with WSM-TV (now WSMV), it became a full ABC affiliate after only one year when WLAC-TV (now WTVF) signed on and took the CBS affiliation due to WLAC-AM's long history as a CBS radio affiliate. Its original studio was on Old Hickory Boulevard, just outside Nashville. In 1961, WSIX-AM-FM-TV moved to a new studio on Murfreesboro Road, where the TV station is located today. However, it didn't have much luck against WSM and WLAC. Part of the problem was a weak signal. Its transmitter was short-spaced to channel 8 in Atlanta--occupied first by WLWA-TV (now WXIA-TV) and currently occupied by WGTV. WSIX was also hampered by a weaker network affiliation (ABC wasn't truly competitive with CBS and NBC until the early 1970s).

The Draughons sold WSIX-AM-FM-TV to General Electric in 1966. In 1972, General Electric cut a deal with Nashville's PBS station, WDCN-TV (now WNPT), then on channel 2, to swap dial positions. GE did this because the channel 2 signal travels farther than the channel 8 signal. The swap occurred on December 11, 1973, in the middle of evening prime-time programming. At the same time, even though General Electric still owned WSIX-AM-FM, it changed WSIX-TV's callsign to WNGE-TV (for Nashville General Electric), leaving the radio stations' callsigns intact. It was only the third facility swap in American television history. Knight-Ridder bought WNGE-TV in 1983 and changed the calls to the current WKRN-TV. Young Broadcasting, the current owners, bought the station in 1989. It is merely a coincidence that the call letters reflect Young Broadcasting's flagship outlet, KRON-TV in San Francisco.

Despite the ownership changes and several awards for its news coverage--it started Nashville's first 5 p.m. newscast--WKRN is still a very distant third in the Nashville television ratings. Its signal is still somewhat weaker than those of WSMV and WTVF, probably because it is short-spaced to WSB-TV in Atlanta (another ABC affiliate).

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Terrestrial television>Broadcast television in the Nashville market  [(Nielsen DMA #30)]
WKRN 2 (ABC) - WSMV 4 (NBC) - WTVF 5 (CBS) - WNPT 8 (PBS) - WETV 11 (unknown) - WIIW 14 (Religious/DS) - WZTV 17 (Fox) - WCTE 22 (PBS) - WNPX 28 (i) - WUXP 30 (UPN/My Network TV) - WJNK 34 (3ABN) - W36AK 36 (TBN) - WHTN 39 (CTN) - WPGD 50 (TBN) - W52CT 52 (A1) - WNAB 58 (WB/The CW) - WJFB 66 (ShopNBC)
ABC Network Affiliates in the state of Tennessee
WKRN 2 () - WATE 6 () - WBBJ 7 () - WTVC 9 () - WKPT 19 () - WPTY 24 ()
'''See also: , , , , , and stations in Tennessee

 

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