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WTVF-DT2 is an Independent television station that is licensed to and located in Nashville, Tennessee. The station is a second digital sub-channel of CBS affiliate WTVF owned by the E.W. Scripps Company. Over-the-air, it broadcasts a standard definition signal on digital UHF channel 25.2 (or 5.2 via PSIP) from a transmitter located near Whites Creek just off Interstate 24 in northern Davidson County. WTVF-DT2's parent station has studios located at 474 James Robertson Parkway in downtown Nashville.

WTVF-DT2 can also be seen worldwide via its internet web stream during its broadcasts of its local programming.[1]

History

It began as a local-oriented cable-only channel, with an on-air identity, "News Channel 5+," or as pronounced, "News Channel 5 Plus." It was introduced and launched in September 1996 as an all-news and information cable channel for the Nashville area.[2] In addition to locally produced shows and newscast repeats, News Channel 5+ also carried programming from All News Channel until that service folded in September 2002. After that point, the channel's programming schedule relies mostly on original content.

NewsChannel 5+ was relaunched as an over-the-air digital sub-channel on June 21, 2009, nine days after the Digital TV transition of 2009, when WTVF began utilizing digital multi-casting on its digital signal. Since then, News Channel 5+ is being broadcast on digital channel 5.2. In mid-2014, WTVF-DT2's standard definition picture was upgraded to 16:9 SD widescreen to accommodate widescreen TVs.

Programming

This channel features locally produced programming, repeats of local news from the main channel, and a few syndicated shows that may not fit on the program schedule of the main channel. There is also live gavel-to-gavel coverage of high-profile criminal trials in the Nashville area including those of Paul Dennis Reid, Perry March, Mary Winkler, and Lindsey Lowe. WTVF-DT2 goes live during severe weather and will sometimes air local newscasts if CBS programming preempts the main channel, such as during the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, which has been a staple in CBS Sports programming since 1982.

Since the Saturday edition of CBS This Morning does not run on the main channel, it is being carried on WTVF-DT2 on a one-hour delay, so it is being run from 8 to 10 a.m. C.T. Saturday mornings. CBS Overnight News is also run almost in its entirety during the wee hours of every weekday morning, usually from 1:35 to 3:30 a.m., since the main channel airs certain syndicated programming, and doesn't join the overnight news program until 2:37 a.m. It also carries the full hour of CBS' Face the Nation, since WTVF only shows the first half-hour of the program; the main channel airs religious programming from 10 to 11:00 a.m. Children's educational programming on WTVF-DT2 is a replay of the children's programming block that is run on WTVF-DT3 on Sunday Mornings; WTVF-DT2 rebroadcasts that programming on Sunday afternoons.[3]

WTVF-DT2 also replays most, if not all, newscasts and editions of their locally produced show, Talk of the Town. In addition, WTVF-DT2's parent station also produces five hours of newscasts each week for NewsChannel 5+ in the form of an hour-long extension of WTVF's weekday morning newscast airing from 7 to 8 a.m.[3] Supreme Justice is the only syndicated program that is shown on the channel.[4]

Beginning in June 2015, WTVF-DT2 broadcast Union Wrestling Latin America's lucha libre-like shows under the traditional brokered format of most local wrestling promotions. UWLA specifically targeted the area's Hispanic-American population. That show was removed from programming in late July, 2015.

Locally produced programs [3][4]

  • Morning Line
  • Openline - live call-in show about local issues
  • SportsLine - live call-in show that focuses on local and national sports
  • The Plus Side of Nashville
  • Issues of Faith
  • Fishin' Affliction
  • Inside Workforce Development
  • Out & About Today - focuses on the Nashville LGBT community
  • Titans Talk - live call-in show focusing on all things Tennessee Titans (airs during NFL Football Season months only).
  • Taste of the Town - features recipes from its parent program, Talk of the Town.
  • Que Pasa Nashville? - focuses on happenings in the Latino community
  • Urban Outlook
  • Talk of the Town - encore presentations from the main channel
  • Newscasts
    • 4PM and 5PM newscasts (Weekdays, 4:30 and 5:30 p.m., respectively)
    • 6 PM newscasts (Weeknights at 9 p.m.)
    • 10PM newscasts (Monday-Friday mornings at 1:00 a.m.)

Availability

Middle Tennessee

Throughout Middle Tennessee, it is carried on Charter cable channel 182,[5] and on Comcast Channel 250.[6] In Clarksville and Montgomery County, it is carried on cable channel 50 via CDE Lightband.[7] In Macon County and northeastern Sumner County, WTVF-DT2 is carried on North Central Telephone Cooperative cable channel 7. In Columbia/Maury County, the station is also available on cable channel 6 on CPWS PowerNet Cable.[8] Other cable companies carrying WTVF-DT2 includes:

West Tennessee

WTVF-DT2 is available on Jackson EnergyAuthority's EPlus Broadband Cable channel 198.[11]

Southern Kentucky

Time Warner Cable carries WTVF-DT2 on its systems in Hopkinsville, Christian County and Bowling Green, Warren County on channels 101 and 422, respectively.[12] In Barren County, the South Central Rural Telephone Cooperative (SCRTC) carries WTVF-DT2 on SCRTC channel 92.[13] The SCRTC carries the channel on both their Glasgow and Tompkinsville systems. Although Mediacom carries the main channel on its systems in Butler and Edmonson counties in Kentucky, WTVF-DT2 is not carried on those systems.

In Russellville, Kentucky, the station is viewed on Russellville (KY) Electric Plant Board cable channel 6.

References

  1. ^ Watch 5+ Live
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference WTVF-Firsts was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ a b c "NewsChannel 5 Program Guide - NewsChannel5.com, WTVF-TV, Nashville, Tennessee - NewsChannel5.com". Retrieved November 13, 2014.
  4. ^ a b WTVFDT2 (WTVF-DT2 TV Listings, TV Shows, and Schedule - Zap2It
  5. ^ Charter Communications Cable Channel Lineup
  6. ^ Comcast Cable Channel Lineup
  7. ^ "CDE Lightband Cable Channel Lineup Archived November 29, 2014, at the Wayback Machine." ClarksvilleDE.com. Retrieved January 13, 2015.
  8. ^ CPWS PowerNet Cable Lineup
  9. ^ United Communications Cable Channel guide
  10. ^ http://wktelecom.coop/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/henry_flite_pricing01.15.pdf
  11. ^ "E-Plus Boradband Cable Channel Lineup". Jackson Energy Authority. Retrieved February 28, 2015.
  12. ^ "Time Warner Cable - Channel Lineup for Bowling Green, KY". Archived from the original on 2015-01-06. Retrieved 2015-01-27. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |dead-url= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  13. ^ "SCRTC Cable Channel Lineup for Barren, Hart, and Metcalfe Counties Archived 2015-06-26 at the Wayback Machine". South Central Rural Telephone Cooperative. Retrieved February 12, 2015.

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