Lost UHF station in Cookeville ?

[secondchoice]

When I was attending Tennessee Tech (1974-1978), there was an UHF station starting up in Cookeville. Did it evolve into WCTE?

 

[mvcg66b3r]

From Wikipedia:

WCTE first signed on the air on August 21, 1978. It was the last in a series of stations launched by the Tennessee Department of Education over an 12-year period, finally bringing public television to the last remaining part of the state that previously had little or no access to it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WCTE

 

[secondchoice]

I guess I forgot to mention it was a commercial station, so it could not be WCTE. Someone told me the transmitter and tower was on top of a ski lodge. I never actually saw the tower or the Ski lodge. I believe the station was in the high channels (40's or higher). The reason I brought up WCTE was sometimes TV stations "swap" channels like 2 and 8 did in Nashville so long ago.

 

[JRH]

Was it possibly this station?

WCPT Ch. 55 Crossville, TN (Ind.)

8:30 Children's Gospel Hour
9 AM Rev. Woody Martin
9:30 You'll Love It
10 AM Tony And Susan Alamo
10:30 TBA
11 AM Blue Ridge Quartet
11:30 Rev. Leonard Repass
12 N Rex Humbard
1 PM Jamboree
4 PM Wrestling
5 PM Burning Bush
5:30 My Hero
6 PM Invisible Man
6:30 American Angler
7 PM PTL Club
9 PM Jimmy Swaggart
9:30 Day Of Discovery
10 PM Jerry Falwell
11 PM James Robison Presents
11:30 700 Club

That schedule from Sep 2, 1979 was from this thread:
http://www.radiodiscussions.com/sho...Tennessee-Sun-Sept-2-1979&highlight=tennessee

There's an entry from Wikipedia:
WCPT-TV was a UHF commercial independent television station licensed to Crossville, Tennessee, broadcast over channel 55 from 1977 to 1982 and over channel 20 (as WINT-TV) from 1982 to 1983.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WCPT-TV

 

[mvcg66b3r]

secondchoice said Cookeville, not Crossville.

 

[CDG]

Channel 28 was in Cookeville until sometime in the 90's.

 

[KeithE4]

Channel 28 was in Cookeville until sometime in the 90's.

I found references in Broadcasting Magazine to WKWR-TV 28 in Cookeville, circa 1983-84, but I have no idea when it went off the air. It apparently was an independent that aired CNN news, per a 1984 ad.

WMTT went on the air in 1989, became WKZX in 1994, a WB affiliate a year later, and has been WNPX-TV, the Pax/Ion affiliate for the Nashville market since 1998.

 

[secondchoice]

I think JRH is correct. Crossville is a couple of hundred meters higher than Cookeville, so even a Class C3 FM with a really short tower throws some signal into Cookeville:

http://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WOWF&service=FM&status=L&hours=U

even 1400 watts on the same tower puts a simi usable (not sell able) signal into Cookville.

http://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WPBX&service=FM&status=L&hours=U

BTW do the locals sometime call Cookeville "Cook-Vegas". I use to rent a place in downtown LA (Lower Algood TN)