It’s an unaffiliated broadcast TV station known to locals as “The Knox,” and it uses digital channel 7 to reach Knoxville and its vicinity. In the digital world, that means reception issues are aplenty for WKNX-TV.
As such, the station’s owner is requesting a shift to a vacant UHF channel. In order for that to happen, the FCC has opened a comment period for the public’s response to the plan.
Lockwood Broadcast Group wants to move “The Knox” to digital channel 21, while retaining its PSIP of Channel 7.
This, the licensee says, would resolve current reception challenges. And, the Video Division of the FCC’s Media Bureau agrees.
As such, a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking has been issued by the Bureau with a Comment Date and Reply Comment Date scheduled for 30 days and 45 days, respectively, after the NPRM is published in the Federal Register.
The petition is MB Docket No. 23-244.
Lockwood completed its acquisition of WKNX-TV in March 2013, purchasing it from Word of God Fellowship for $2.95 million.
