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WJHL-TV "CBS News Channel 11" is a CBS-affiliated television station licensed to Johnson City, Tennessee, USA. WJHL-TV is owned by Richmond, Virginia-based Media General and serves as the CBS Television Network affiliate for the Tri-Cities area of northeastern Tennessee and southwestern Virginia. The 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 includes Kingsport & Bristol, Tennessee-Virginia as its own legal station identification.〔Television Factbook #49, 1980 Edition, page 787-B, WJHL-TV〕 ==History== WJHL-TV began broadcasting on October 26, 1953.〔"Eight stations, 5 VHF, 3 UHF, begin commercial operation." ''Broadcasting - Telecasting'', November 2, 1953, pg. 64. ()〕 It was owned by Hanes Lancaster, Sr. his son Hanes, Jr. and Jesse W. "Jay" Birdwell along with WJHL radio (910 AM, now WJCW; and FM 101.5, now WQUT). All three stations took their calls from John H. Lancaster, Sr. (Hanes, Sr.'s father and Hanes, Jr.'s grandfather) who had founded WJHL radio in 1938. In the summer of 1953, WJHL-TV was on track to be the first television station to sign on in East Tennessee, projecting to begin operations on October 1. At the time, the station's original transmission tower was being constructed on Tannery Knob in downtown Johnson City. With just a few weeks before sign-on, the guy wires snapped, sending the tower and its antenna crashing to the ground. This enabled WROL-TV in Knoxville (now WATE-TV) to beat WJHL-TV to the air by almost a month. Since many advertisers and banks were already skeptical about television's viability (the tower crash did not help), the Lancasters had to scramble for funding. They were able to get the station on-the-air but had to side-mount a much smaller replacement antenna on a wooden power pole the Johnson City Power Board installed at the last minute. In 1955, Birdwell sold his interests in WJHL-AM-FM-TV, which ended his broadcasting interests. Birdwell had already sold WBIR in Knoxville (now WIFA) eleven years earlier to a Cincinnati, Ohio-based consortium, which retained the call letters Birdwell initiated, reflecting the first three letters of his name. In 1956, that same consortium launched WBIR-TV, which retains Birdwell's original call letters to this day. Originally, WJHL-TV was affiliated with all four television networks of the time—CBS, NBC, ABC and the DuMont. However, its primary affiliation has always been with CBS, due to that network's long-time affiliation with WJHL radio. In 1954, the WJHL-TV transmitter was relocated to Buffalo Mountain southwest of Johnson City, which is higher than Tannery Knob. From that location, the station was able to better reach Bristol, Kingsport and other areas of Eastern Tennessee, Southwestern Virginia, and Western North Carolina. To this day, WQUT-FM (the former WJHL-FM) still broadcasts from WJHL-TV's old tower on Buffalo Mountain. Meanwhile, NBC moved to WCYB-TV in Bristol when that station signed-on in 1956. WJHL lost Dumont soon afterward when that network shut down. WJHL and WCYB shared ABC until 1969 when WKPT-TV in Kingsport signed-on and became the market's ABC affiliate. The Lancasters sold off their radio interests in 1960, and in turn sold WJHL-TV to Roy H. Park Broadcasting in 1964--earning a handsome return on John H. Lancaster's original investment from 26 years earlier.〔"Changing Hands." ''Broadcasting'', January 20, 1964, pg. 48. ()〕 Around this time, the station adopted a logo featuring a U.S. highway sign with an "11" inside it, which remained in use until around 1987. The logo was already well known in the area, since alternate routes of US 11 E & W pass through most of the major cities and towns in the Tri-Cities. The shields were and still are quite prevalent in the area and became an instant promotional link for the station. Park Broadcasting was renamed Park Communications in the 1977. Hanes Lancaster, Jr. had succeeded his father as station manager in 1954 and remained as station manager after the sale to Park. In 1989, Lancaster, Jr. was succeeded by Jack Dempsey, who held the post until June 2012, when he went to crosstown rival WCYB. Dan Cates was appointed General Manager of WJHL in August 2012, after being the news director of sister station WSPA-TV in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Many of its employees have stayed on for thirty years or more, which is unusual for such a small market (it's currently the 93rd market, the smallest in the state with three full big three affiliates). Some of the more well-known TV anchors and personalities on WJHL include: Dick Ellis, Al Gregory, Red Kirk, Kathryn Willis, Eddie McKinney, Bob Carlton, Ed Carter, Bob Lewis, Don Garland, Ron Rankins, Claude Wood, Judy Rothe, Ray Stockard, Tony Treadway, Mary Ellen Plubell (Miller), Mark Reynolds, Jim Bailey, Kenny Hawkins and Tim Cable. In 1969, WJHL moved its transmitter once again higher and further east, this time side-by-side with WKPT on the lower end of Holston High Point on Holston Mountain. With an antenna now at above average terrain, it was necessary to reduce full power analog visual to 245,000 watts from the normal 316,000 watts allocated to stations between VHF channel 7 to 13 with antennas below above average terrain. Media General acquired Park Communications and WJHL in 1997 and dropped its longtime brands of both "TV-11", "Channel 11" or "U.S. Channel 11 (Unmentioned)" in favor of "NewsChannel 11". The station began broadcasting a digital signal on UHF channel 58 in 1998. In May 2009, WJHL-TV switched its branding from "NewsChannel 11" to "11 Connects." WJHL-TV reverted back to the "NewsChannel 11" branding in October 2012. Under federal must-carry rules, broadcasters can either allow cable systems in their market to carry their signals for free or charge a fee under retransmission consent provisions. On December 3, 2008, it was announced that Inter Mountain Cable (IMC), a cable provider serving parts of Eastern Kentucky, announced that it would drop WJHL from its lineup unless an agreement was reached over retransmission consent.〔 〕 According to ''The Mountain Eagle'', this dispute has caused concern among officials in the city of Fleming-Neon where IMC holds the cable television franchise there. The city council in Fleming-Neon have stated that the removal of WJHL will violate IMC's franchise agreement.〔 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「WJHL-TV」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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