WJHL-DT2
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| Tri-Cities, Tennessee-Virginia | |
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| City | Johnson City, Tennessee |
| Branding | ABC Tri-Cities |
| Channels | Digital: WJHL-DT 11.2 (VHF/PSIP) |
| Affiliations | ABC (2016–present) |
| Owner |
Nexstar Media Group (Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc.) |
| First air date | 2006 |
| Call letters' meaning | see WJHL-TV |
| Former channel number(s) |
Digital: 58.2 (UHF, 2006–2009) |
| Former affiliations |
Independent/Local Weather (2006–2011) MeTV (2011–2016) |
| Transmitter power | 34.5 kW |
| Height | 708 metres (2,323 ft) |
| Facility ID | 57826 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 36°25′54.8″N 82°8′15.1″W / 36.431889°N 82.137528°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | WJHL.com |
WJHL-DT2 is the ABC affiliated television station licensed to Johnson City, Tennessee, USA. It is a second digital subchannel of CBS affiliated WJHL-TV, which is owned by Irving, Texas-based Nexstar Media Group, and serves the Tri-Cities area of northeastern Tennessee and southwestern Virginia. WJHL-DT2’s parent station has studios on East Main Street in downtown Johnson City, and its transmitter is located on Holston Mountain.
Although the station is located in Johnson City, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) requires it to also include all three major cities of the market (Johnson City, Kingsport and Bristol, Tennessee/Virginia) in its legal station identification.
In late 2006, WJHL-DT2 began broadcasting as an digital OTA relaunch of the station’s cable-exclusive local weather channel. The weather channel lasted for almost five years. In August 2011, WJHL-DT2 became a general entertainment outlet by joining the Weigel Broadcasting-operated MeTV network.
On January 4, 2016, Media General and ABC announced that WJHL-DT2 would become the Tri-Cities' ABC affiliate on February 1 of that year, branded as ABC Tri-Cities. The Tri-Cities market’s original primary ABC affiliate was WKPT-TV since that station’s 1969 launch. However, before WKPT had the ABC affiliation, WJHL carried that network as a secondary affiliation since that station’s launch in October 1953. WJHL also carried the NBC and DuMont networks on a secondary basis until 1956 when DuMont went off the air permanently and WCYB-TV signed on as an NBC affiliate, and began sharing the ABC affiliation with WJHL until WKPT’s 1969 sign-on.
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