What programming delays does WREG-TV in Memphis most commonly experience?”
(Memphis 2/6/2009) WREG-TV has joined many other major broadcast organizations in delaying the switch from analogue TV to a digital signal until June 12th. Earlier this week, Congress postponed the mandatory transition to digital TV until June. However, it also gave stations the option to stick to the originally scheduled date of Feb. 17. Lawmakers wanted to address concerns that many households that receive TV signals through an antenna are not prepared for the switch. They were also mindful that a government fund has run out of money to subsidize digital converter boxes for older TVs. News Channel 3 viewers who use antennas to receive their television signals now have a few extra months to prepare for the switch.
WREG-TV is Memphis, Tennessee’s CBS television affiliate, operating on digital channel 28, and uses PSIP 3 as its virtual channel. The station is owned by Local TV, which took over all of the television stations formerly owned by The New York Times Company on May 7, 2007. Its transmitter is located in Memphis. History WREG-TV first went to air on New Year’s Day 1956 as WREC-TV. Owned by electrical engineer and radio dealer Hoyt Wooten along with WREC radio (AM 600 and FM 102.7, now WEGR), the station began regular broadcasts the next day. The calls stood for Wooten’s radio store, the Wooten Radio-Electric Company. It took the CBS affiliation from WHBQ-TV because WREC-AM had been a CBS affiliate since 1929. Studios were located in the Peabody Hotel in downtown Memphis. Wooten had actually applied for one of the first television licenses in the country, in 1928. For its first six years, WREC-TV was the only locally-owned station in Memphis (WHBQ-TV was owned by General Tire and WMC-TV wa
