WKRN-DT2
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Nashville, Tennessee United States |
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| Branding | MeTV Nashville |
| Channels |
Digital: WKRN-DT 27.2 (UHF) Virtual: 2.2 () |
| Affiliations | MeTV (2016–present) |
| Owner |
Nexstar Media Group (Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc.) |
| Founded | circa 2008 |
| First air date | circa 2008 (Over-the-air sub-channel launch) |
| Call letters' meaning | see WKRN-TV |
| Former affiliations | Ind. / Weather (2008–2016) |
| Transmitter power | 1,000 kW |
| Height | 411 metres (1,348 ft) |
| Facility ID | 73188 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 36°2′50″N 86°49′49″W / 36.04722°N 86.83028°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
WKRN-DT2 is the MeTV affiliated television station that is licensed to Nashville, Tennessee, and serving the Nashville media market. It is a digital subchannel of ABC affiliate WKRN-TV, which is owned by the Nexstar Media Group. It is broadcast over-the-air on virtual channel 2.2 (UHF channel 27.2). WKRN-DT2's parent station's studios are located on Murfreesboro Road (US Routes 70S and 41 on the southeast side of Nashville, and its transmitter is located in Forest Hills in southern Davidson County.
WKRN launched the subchannel in 2008 as the exclusively local 24-hour weather channel for the Nashville area. It was branded on-air as the Nashville Weather Channel, but stylized as the Nashville WX Channel. The subchannel also simulcasted the main channel’s wall-to-wall severe weather coverage when a tornado warning was issued for any part of WKRN’s coverage area. The Channel was somewhat of a locally oriented version of the AccuWeather channel, except that it implements a backward L bar for its screen orientation, with an information crawl on the bottom of the screen. It provided pre-recorded weather segments produced by the WKRN Weather Team, and it featured radar imagery, the current time, temperature, and precipitation count in the Downtown Nashville area. This subchannel was also ad-supported, for commercials are shown between a replay of the taped weather segments, and the next time they show the weather slides with music in the background. Like the digital weather channels of other stations formerly owned by Young Broadcasting, the channel is produced in-house with no outside assistance from any national services (such as The Local AccuWeather Channel) and is fully automated using the station's weather computers. This format was similar to that of WBAY-DT2, the local weather-oriented second subchannel of Green Bay, Wisconsin area ABC affiliate WBAY-TV, one of WKRN's sister stations.
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