The Dawn of Knoxville’s TV Age

Published in Asheville Attractions on October 24, 2013

After his arrival at WATE around 1958, Jack Wiedemann was a popular on-air host who was also instrumental in moving the station into its current headquarters, Greystone. Wiedemann still lives in town (see Secret History). Perhaps coincidentally, the perspective of this mocked-up photo is from the block where WROL-TV began broadcasting in 1953.

TAMIS-McClung Historical Collection

After his arrival at WATE around 1958, Jack Wiedemann was a popular on-air host who was also instrumental in moving the station into its current headquarters, Greystone. Wiedemann still lives in town (see Secret History). Perhaps coincidentally, the perspective of this mocked-up photo is from the block where WROL-TV began broadcasting in 1953.

Woodruff’s furniture store on Gay Street (now the Downtown Grill), a major purveyor of television sets, displayed these promotions for Knoxville’s first two TV stations: a quiet promo for WATE, at left, and a flashier show of WTVK, then a CBS affiliate, at right. In the mid-1950s, WTSK boosted its signal and became WTVK, but the UHF channel continued to have problems. What it lacked<p>Article source: <a href=http://www.metropulse.com/news/2013/oct/23/dawn-knoxvilles-tv-age/ If you need a cheap air ticket, hotel or rental car please visit http://www.airticket.com

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