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WJTV signed-on January 20, 1953, as Mississippi's first television station, airing an analog signal on UHF channel 25. It was owned by the Hederman family, publishers of Jackson's morning and afternoon newspapers—The Clarion-Ledger and the Jackson Daily News, respectively—and was a primary CBS affiliate and secondary DuMont Television Network affiliate.
It is Jackson's second-oldest television station, following WJTV (channel 12), which debuted in January 1953. Channel 3 is also Mississippi's third-oldest television station (now-sister station WTOK-TV in Meridian went on the air three months earlier). A few weeks after its debut, the station was renamed WLBT—which stands for Lamar ...
Area served City of license VC RF Callsign Network Notes Biloxi: 13 32 WLOX: ABC: CBS on 13.2, Bounce TV on 13.3, True Crime Network on 13.4 : 19 16 WMAH-TV: PBS: satellite of WMPN-TV ch. 29 Jackson
Pages in category "Television stations in Jackson, Mississippi" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Jackson, MS Metropolitan Statistical Area is a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) in the central region of the U.S. state of Mississippi that covers seven counties: Copiah, Hinds, Holmes, Madison, Rankin, Simpson, and Yazoo. As of the 2010 census, the Jackson MSA had a population of 586,320. According to 2019 estimates, the population has ...
Jackson is the capital of and the most populous city in the U.S. state of Mississippi.Along with Raymond, Jackson is one of two county seats for Hinds County.The city had a population of 153,701 at the 2020 census, a significant decline from 173,514, or 11.42%, since the 2010 census, representing the largest decline in population during the decade of any major U.S. city. [4]
The station was merged with WJTV, then on channel 25, the next year, and the two stations merged as WJTV on channel 12. Thereafter the callsign WSLI solely identified the radio station until the early 2000s. In this time, the studios of the radio station were located next door to WJTV off Robinson Road in southwest Jackson.
Mississippi Public Broadcasting (MPB) is the public broadcasting network serving the U.S. state of Mississippi. It is owned by the Mississippi Authority for Educational Television (MAET), an agency of the state government that holds the licenses for all of the PBS and NPR member stations in the state. MPB's headquarters is located on Ridgewood ...