WTVF, also known as NewsChannel 5, is the CBS television network affiliate in Nashville, Tennessee. The station is owned by Landmark Media Enterprises (which was called Landmark Communications until September 2008). Its transmitter is located in Nashville.
WTVF also owns and operates NewsChannel 5+, a spinoff cable channel, viewable on Channel 50 on most of Middle Tennessee's cable systems (Channel 250 on Comcast in Nashville and surrounding area...
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WTVF, also known as NewsChannel 5, is the CBS television network affiliate in Nashville, Tennessee. The station is owned by Landmark Media Enterprises (which was called Landmark Communications until September 2008). Its transmitter is located in Nashville.
WTVF also owns and operates NewsChannel 5+, a spinoff cable channel, viewable on Channel 50 on most of Middle Tennessee's cable systems (Channel 250 on Comcast in Nashville and surrounding areas.) Along with their website, newschannel5.com, the stations promote themselves under the umbrella branding "NewsChannel 5 Network". (Both "NewsChannel 5" and "NewsChannel 5 Network" are also used by stations in other markets.)
As of February 4, 2007, WTVF became the first station in Tennessee to broadcast local news in HDTV. Its sister station, KLAS-TV in Las Vegas, Nevada, also broadcasts in this format.
On January 30, 2008, Landmark announced its intention to sell WTVF, along with its other TV station KLAS-TV in Las Vegas. This was followed...
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