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WBXX-TV is the CW-affiliated television station for Knoxville and East Tennessee licensed to Crossville. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 20 from a transmitter in unincorporated Southwestern Anderson County. The station can also be seen on Comcast and Knology channel 7 as well as Charter channel 12. Owned by the Lockwood Broadcast Group, WBXX is the sister station of Independent station, WKNX-TV. Both stations have studios on Cogdill Road in unincorporated western Knox County (with a Knoxville address). Syndicated programming on the station includes ''How I Met Your Mother'', ''Family Guy'' and ''The Big Bang Theory'', among others. ==History== WBXX began operation in October 1997; the station is the only one that was ever built by ACME Communications from the ground up (KWBQ in Albuquerque, New Mexico was also signed on by ACME but its construction permit originally belonged to another entity). It was primarily an affiliate of The WB Television Network from its sign-on until 2006, though it did run select UPN programming during 2001 and 2002 as that network did not have a Knoxville affiliate at the time.〔("Sharing the wealth" ), from variety.com, 2/22/2000〕 WBXX was consistently one of the highest-rated WB stations in the country, and was recognized as such by The WB network. After being known as "WB20" since signing on, WBXX rebranded as "East Tennessee's WB" in September 2003. When the station took affiliation with The CW, it was renamed "East Tennessee's CW." WBXX rebranded again, to its current "CW20" moniker, in August 2008. WBXX is the only full-powered Knoxville-market station to be licensed in a city in the Central Time Zone; Cumberland County (where Crossville is located) and Fentress County are the only two counties in the Knoxville market that observe Central Time, one hour earlier than Knoxville, in Eastern Time. However, while national CW programming is promoted with both Eastern and Central Time listings, WBXX local programming is promoted with only Eastern Time listings. In February 2011, ACME Communications announced a deal to sell the station to Virginia-based Lockwood Broadcasting Group. The sale was approved by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on March 21 with the consummation being completed on May 6.〔(Source: ACME Communications press release from 2/1/2011 )〕〔("ACME to Sell Knoxville's WBXX to Lockwood Broadcast Group" ), from broadcastingcable.com, 2/1/2011〕〔http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/app_det.pl?Application_id=1415480〕 From 1998 until 2004, the station aired a series of interstitials during children's programming called "WB 20 Kids Club" (later "Dubba Clubba") hosted by comedian Jackson Bailey (known as "Joe Cool"). The interstitials featured information and contests to viewers in several vignettes each weekday covering topics such as science, biology, conservation, music, and pet care. Beginning in September 2015, WBXX will broadcast Atlantic Coast Conference football and men’s basketball syndicated from Raycom Sports-operated ACC Network, some of which will be shared with the main channel of CBS affiliate WVLT-TV. Those games were previously broadcast on MyNetworkTV affiliated WVLT-DT2 from 2009 until the end of the 2014-2015 season. On October 1, 2015, Gray Television announced that it would acquire WBXX-TV from Lockwood Broadcast Group. The purchase is part of Gray's acquisition of the broadcasting assets of Schurz Communications; as part of the deal, Lockwood will receive KAKE in Wichita, Kansas (which Gray put up for sale following the deal with Schurz) and will pay $11.2 million to Gray. Following the completion of this transaction, WBXX will become a sister station to WVLT-TV (channel 8). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「WBXX-TV」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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