WVLT-TV
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WVLT-TV, "WVLT Volunteer TV" is an affiliate of the CBS television network, serving Knoxville, Tennessee, the 60th DMA in America according to Nielsen Media Research. The station is owned and operated by Gray Television. Its transmitter is located in Knoxville.
The station also operates a MyNetworkTV affiliate My East TN TV on its DT2 digital sub-channel. WVLT DT2 use to be an affiliate with UPN and was branded as UPN Knoxville.
WVLT-TV is the only television news operation in the Knoxville market to have news bureaus servicing specific areas of the market, Anderson County, Tennessee and Blount County, Tennessee. The station also touts itself as having the only mid-afternoon newscast in Knoxville (FIRST at 4:00) and the only early evening newscast (Volunteer TV News at 7:00).
History
WVLT-TV signed on the air on October, 1953 as WSKT-TV later WTVK, a CBS affiliate on channel 26. It was Tennessee's first UHF station. In 1954, the station would be acquired by its long-time owner, South Central Communications.
WTVK also shared ABC programming with WROL-TV (now WATE-TV).
When WBIR-TV signed on in 1956 and took the CBS affiliation, WTVK became a full-time ABC affiliate.
In 1979, the station changed affiliations from ABC to NBC, swapping affiliations with WATE-TV.
In 1988, the station rejoined CBS; shortly afterward the station changed its calls to WKXT-TV and moved to channel 8, one of the last remaining VHF channel allocations in the U.S. It changed its callsign again to WVLT in 1997 after Knoxville Channel 8, LP sold the station to current owner Gray Television. Because of this, WVLT is one of a few stations in America to have been an affiliate of all "Big 3" networks.
News reporters and journalists
News Anchors
- Alan Williams - Lead Anchor
- Kelli Parker - Lead Anchor
- Bob Yarbrough - Morning Anchor
- Stacy McCloud - Morning Anchor
- Mark Packer - FIRST at 4:00 Anchor
- Jessa Goddard - FIRST at 4:00, 7:00 Anchor
- Gordon Boyd - Weekend Anchor
- Kim Bedford - Weekend Anchor
Sports
- Rick Russo - Sports Director
- Mark Packer
- Justin Kropff
- Daryl Hobby
News Reporters
- Gordon Boyd
- Kim Bedford
- Whitney Daniel
- Allison Hunt
- Gary Loe
- Stephen McLamb (Blount County Bureau Chief)
Weather
- Craig Edwards
- Scott Blalock
- Allison Hunt
Miscellaneous
- Walter Lambert (TV Chef)
- Shirley Nash-Pitts (Consumer Expert)
Producers
- Brian Gregory (Executive Producer)
- Melanie Fox (East Tennessee This Morning Executive Producer)
- Tony Budnick (Sports Executive Producer)
- Rebecca Gulden (Weekend Producer)
- Clayton Hensley (5:30 Producer)
- Nikki Boyd (Noon Producer) (No relation to Gordon Boyd)
- Carrie Thompson (11:00 Producer)
- Rich Sobolewski (Web Producer)
Current Newscast Info
Newscasts
- East Tennessee This Morning (5:30 a.m. - 7:00 a.m.)
- WVLT TV News at Noon (12:00 p.m. - 12:30 p.m.)
- FIRST at 4:00 (4:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.)
- WVLT NewsHour (5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.)
- WVLT TV News at 7:00 (7:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.)
- WVLT TV News NightWATCH (11:00 p.m. - 11:30 p.m.)
Past Newscast Info
Past News Music
- Pulstar (Vangelis) (1976-1981)
- Hello News (Gari Communications) (1981-1985)
- WTVK 1985 News Theme (Unknown Composer) (1985-1986)
- WTVK 1986 News Theme (Unknown Composer) (1986-1987)
- The Great News Package (Gari Communications) (1987-1997)
- Stravinsky (Stephen Arnold Music) (1997-2001)
- In Touch (Copeland Music Productions) (2001-2002)
- In-Sink (615 Music) (2002-Present)
Past Newscast Titles
- First Edition News (Mid 1970s-Late 1970s)
- Metro 26 News (Late 1970s-Early 1980s)
- NewsCenter 26 (Early 1980s-1986)
- WTVK NewsCenter (1986-1987)
- News 8 (1987-1997)
- NewsChannel 8 (1997-1998)
- Volunteer News (1998-2001 or 2002)
- Volunteer TV News (2002-2006)
Past Personalities
- Monte Janssen (Reporter)
- Melinda Kramer (Reporter)
- Allen Denton (Anchor)
- Sam Brown (Anchor)
- Elda Brown (Anchor)
- Cheryl Masur (Anchor)
- Kathryn Norton (Anchor)
- Kent Blackwelder (Noonday)
- Don Bagwell (News Director)
- Ralph Boston (Sports Director)
- Don Carson (Weather)
- Stan Cotton (Sports)
- Ron Sprowl (Anchor)
- Jennifer Julian (Anchor)
- Johnny Mountain (Weather) now at KCBS-TV
- Kim Sims Thomas (Noonday)
- Brenda Burch (Anchor)
- Lisa Stearns (Reporter)
- Rusty Ensor (Sports anchor)
- Topper Shutt (Weather anchor)
- Norman Hammitt (Anchor)
- Rob Scobey (Anchor/reporter)
- Mike Raita (Sports anchor)