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- WVLT-TV (channel 8) is a television station in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States, affiliated with CBS and MyNetworkTV. It is owned by Gray Television alongside Crossville-licensed CW affiliate WBXX-TV (channel 20). Both stations share studios on Papermill Drive (near I-40/I-75) on the west side of Knoxville, while WVLT-TV's transmitter is located on Sharp's Ridge in North Knoxville. WVLT-TV traces its history to Knoxville's second-oldest television station, which signed on in 1953 as WTSK-TV and changed its call letters to WTVK two years later. As an ultra high frequency (UHF) station, it spent most of its first three decades on the air as an also-ran against two very high frequency (VHF) competitors. At various times, it was an affiliate of all three major networks. In 1988, after the addition of channel 8 as a "VHF drop-in"—an extra channel on the VHF band—to Knoxville, WTVK's owners merged with a competing applicant for channel 8 and essentially moved there under new call letters, WKXT-TV. After years of continued struggles in the ratings, Gray Television purchased the station in 1996; the new owners changed the call sign to WVLT-TV and expanded the news operation. (en)
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- Duane Eastvold, general manager of WTVK (en)
- Pierson Mapes, president of NBC (en)
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- "Volunteer TV", moniker adopted in 1997 (en)
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- A rounded rectangle divided into blue and gray parts with the word "my" in white and "VLT" in black. Underneath, in white text in a gray tab, "WVLT 8.2 HD". (en)
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- This is a heckuva way to treat a station that has been a loyal ABC affiliate for more than 20 years. (en)
- We were waiting for Channel 8 to drop in, but it never dropped in. It seemed like it was going to go on forever. (en)
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