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WKRN-DT2 is an independent 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 Media General. It is broadcast over-the-air on virtual channel 2.2 (UHF channel 27.2). It is branded on-air as the Nashville Weather Channel, but stylized as the Nashville WX Channel. 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. ==History== WKRN launched the subchannel in 2008 as the exclusively local 24-hour weather channel for the Nashville area. It has been broadcasting in this programming format ever since. The subchannel also simulcasts the main channel’s wall-to-wall severe weather coverage when a tornado warning is issued for any part of WKRN’s coverage area. In 2014, a Wikipedia user listed WKRN-DT2 as an affiliate of WeatherNation TV, but it never aired programming from that network. WZTV-DT2, the second subchannel of local Fox affiliate WZTV, became a WeatherNation affiliate in November 2014. WKRN-DT2’s programming is currently simulcast on WKRN-DT3, beginning on May 30, 2015, when the Live Well Network (which was previously broadcast on WKRN-DT3) ceased national distribution outside of ABC’s owned-and-operated stations. This will continue until WKRN begins broadcasting the Me-TV program schedule on the DT3 subchannel, depending on when the switch happens. ==Programming== WKRN-DT2 is a 24-hour weather service, 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 provides pre-recorded weather segments produced by the WKRN Weather Team, and it features radar imagery, the current time, temperature, and precipitation count in the Downtown Nashville area. 〔(Nashville WX - WKRN News 2 )〕 This subchannel is 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. 〔(Weather Channel Music – WKRN News 2 ) WKRN.com. Retrieved November 18, 2014. 〕 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 is 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. In addition, some syndicated programming is aired on this channel, most notably on Sunday Mornings where Children's educational programming is offered through syndication, mainly including Canadian-imported syndicated show, ''Edgemont'', in order for the subchannel to meet FCC required criteria. The syndicated version of ''Storm Stories'' is also shown on WKRN-DT2 on weeknights at 7 p.m. CT. It previously shown Atlantic Coast Conference basketball and football games from Raycom Sports from 2012 until late August 2014, when MyNetworkTV affiliate WUXP took over those rights for the purpose to serve as a replacement for the syndicated Southeastern Conference football and basketball packages by ESPN Plus-produced SEC TV (those were previously provided by Jefferson-Pilot/Raycom Sports until 2009), which were discontinued because of the launch of the new cable-exclusive SEC Network. ==Availability== The Nashville Weather Channel is carried on various cable systems in Middle Tennessee, including but not limited to Comcast/Xfinity (channel 245), and Charter (channel 181). WKRN-DT2 is also carried on locally oriented cable systems in various middle Tennessee locations, including Clarksville's CDE Lightband (on channel 29), and several others throughout the Nashville market. 〔(Clarksville CDE Lightband Cable Channel Lineup ) ClarksvilleDE.com. Retrieved November 18, 2014. 〕 〔(Charter Communications Channel Lineups )〕 Viewers in the Kentucky segment of the Nashville market and/or within WKRN's signal coverage area can only access the channel over-the-air via an antenna, except for SCRTC customers in Allen and Monroe Counties in Kentucky, in which the Nashville WX Channel is carried.〔(Monroe & Allen Channel Lineup ) SCRTC.com〕 WKRN-DT2 is also carried on cable channel 15 in the Logan County seat of Russellville through the cable system of the Russellville Electric Plant Board. 〔(Channel_Lineup.pdf ). Russellville Electric Plant Board. Retrieved July 7, 2015.〕 In Lincoln County, Tennessee, the only Middle Tennessee county in the Huntsville, Alabama DMA, it is available on Fayetteville Public Utilities Cable Channel 244.〔(Fayetteville Public Utilities - Cable TV Channel Lineup )〕 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「WKRN-DT2」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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