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WKRN-TV, virtual channel 2 (UHF digital channel 27), is an ABC-affiliated television station located in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. The station is owned by Media General. WKRN-TV's studios and offices are located on Murfreesboro Road (U.S. Routes 41 and 70S) on Nashville's southeast side and its transmitter is located in Forest Hills, Tennessee. ==History== The station first signed on the air on November 29, 1953, as WSIX-TV, broadcasting on VHF channel 8; it was the second television station in Nashville. The station was originally owned by Louis and Jack Draughon, along with WSIX radio (980 AM, now WYFN). The call letters came from the 638 Tire Company in nearby Springfield, where the Draughon brothers had started WSIX in 1930; neither the radio nor the television stations have ever had the number six in their frequencies, which would explain it otherwise. Originally a CBS affiliate that shared the ABC affiliation with WSM-TV (channel 4, now WSMV), it became a full-time ABC affiliate after only one year when WLAC-TV (channel 5, now WTVF) signed on and took the CBS affiliation due to WLAC radio's long history as a CBS radio affiliate. During the late 1950s, the station was also briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network. The station's original studio facilities were located on Old Hickory Boulevard, just outside of Nashville. In 1961, WSIX-AM-FM-TV moved to a new studio located at 441 Murfreesboro Road, where the television station remains located today. The current WKRN studio facility is where the Wilburn Brothers' television program was produced during the 1960s and 1970s (however, WSM-TV had the rights to air the show in the Nashville market). WSIX-TV, however, did not have much luck against WSM-TV and WLAC-TV. Part of the problem was a weak signal, as its transmitter was short-spaced to channel 8 in Atlanta – occupied first by WLWA-TV (now WXIA-TV) and currently occupied by WGTV. WSIX-TV was also hampered by a weaker network affiliation (ABC was not truly competitive with CBS and NBC until well into the 1970s). The Draughons sold the WSIX stations to General Electric in 1966. In 1973, GE agreed to a deal with Nashville's PBS member station, WDCN-TV (now WNPT), then on channel 2, to swap frequencies. GE participated in the channel trade because the analog channel 2 facility was better suited for a network affiliate as opposed to an non-commercial educational station.〔"VHF frequency swap in Nashville." ''Broadcasting''. March 26, 1973, pp. 60-62. ()()〕 The swap occurred on December 11, 1973 at 9 p.m., in the middle of evening prime-time programming, between the ''Movie of the Week'', "The Cat Creature", and ''Marcus Welby, M.D.''.〔"In brief: Two gets you eight." ''Broadcasting''. December 17, 1973, pg. 10. ()〕〔(radiodiscussions.com: "Retro: Northern Alabama Tuesday, December 11, 1973", October 7, 2012. )〕 At the same time, even though General Electric still owned WSIX-AM-FM, WSIX-TV's call letters were changed to WNGE-TV (for Nashville General Electric). This was only the third facility swap in American television history. General Electric pared down its broadcasting holdings during the early 1980s (though it would purchase NBC in 1986), selling WNGE-TV to Knight Ridder in 1983. The new owners changed the calls on November 29 to the current WKRN-TV. Knight Ridder sold off all of its television stations in 1989, at which point Young Broadcasting bought the station (along with its sibling WTEN in Albany, New York). It is merely a coincidence that the call letters reflect the former Young Broadcasting's flagship outlet, KRON-TV in San Francisco. Like all other ABC affiliates that were owned by Young Broadcasting, WKRN preempted ABC's broadcast of the movie ''Saving Private Ryan'' in 2004. On June 6, 2013, Media General announced that it would acquire Young Broadcasting in an all-stock deal.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/tv-companies-media-general-new-564163 )〕 The merger was completed on November 12, 2013, resulting in WKRN and its Knoxville sister station WATE-TV becoming sister stations of Johnson City-based WJHL-TV. However, less than two years after that merger was finalized, the station's ownership was once again put into flux, as on September 8, 2015, Media General announced that it would acquire the Meredith Corporation for $2.4 billion, with the combined group to be renamed Meredith Media General once the sale is finalized. Because Meredith already owns WSMV, and the two stations rank among the four highest-rated stations in the Nashville market in total day viewership, the companies will be required to sell either WSMV or WKRN to comply with FCC ownership rules as well as recent changes to those rules regarding same-market television stations that restrict sharing agreements. 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-TV」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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