WXVT, Greenville, MS
WEEK 16 – Elsewhere around Greenville
Longtime followers of my photostream might recall that another interest of mine, besides retail, is TV news. Primarily local, but it doesn’t have to be, and it’s not necessarily just the newscasts either; I guess more broadly you could say I’m interested in TV stations as a whole. But still, local news seems to be the biggest focus. I know way more about WMC Action News 5 than I should, and have shared some photos to that extent with y’all before, in this album. Today, while we’re photographically exploring places of significance in Greenville, MS, I get to feature another local TV station: WXVT-CBS, Channel 15. Buckle up, I’m going to drop a lot of knowledge on y’all in only four descriptions!
First off, you might be wondering why I took photos here. Two reasons. One I’ll share with y’all later, but the other explains why this place was ever on my radar in the first place: my mom and I would always pass by these studios en route to my grandparents’ house, and I always thought it was so cool to see a TV station building in person.
Now, some background and history. Greenville, Mississippi, isn’t the most populated place in the world. In fact, as ranked by Nielsen – which determines the market numbers of all of the local television designated market areas (DMAs) across the country – Greenwood-Greenville is pretty darn close to the bottom. It’s currently number 194 out of 210. (For comparison, NYC and LA are 1 and 2, respectively. Memphis is 51, and Jackson, MS, is 95. All others in MS are below 130.) These numbers fluctuate every year, but never by much; Greenville is consistently toward the end of the line.
A lot of these small-market stations either have low-output and/or low-quality local news operations, or maybe no local news operations at all. Greenville isn’t that bad; in fact, it’s had news ever since 1959, back when the Delta was rocking and rolling. That year saw the launch of WABG, Channel 6, in Greenwood. Previously, few signals reached the region. (One of them, of course, was WMCT, all the way up in Memphis.)
WABG was the first station to operate between Memphis and Jackson, and, naturally, was very popular among area residents. There was backlash when the station’s facilities moved from Greenwood to downtown Greenville, but it still kept on providing services and programming to the region, without competition I might add. Until 1980, that is, when WXVT hit the airwaves.
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WXVT-TV (abandoned) // 3015 E Reed Road, Greenville, MS 38703
(c) 2020 Retail Retell
These places are public so these photos are too, but just as I tell where they came from, I'd appreciate if you'd say who :)
WXVT, Greenville, MS
WEEK 16 – Elsewhere around Greenville
Longtime followers of my photostream might recall that another interest of mine, besides retail, is TV news. Primarily local, but it doesn’t have to be, and it’s not necessarily just the newscasts either; I guess more broadly you could say I’m interested in TV stations as a whole. But still, local news seems to be the biggest focus. I know way more about WMC Action News 5 than I should, and have shared some photos to that extent with y’all before, in this album. Today, while we’re photographically exploring places of significance in Greenville, MS, I get to feature another local TV station: WXVT-CBS, Channel 15. Buckle up, I’m going to drop a lot of knowledge on y’all in only four descriptions!
First off, you might be wondering why I took photos here. Two reasons. One I’ll share with y’all later, but the other explains why this place was ever on my radar in the first place: my mom and I would always pass by these studios en route to my grandparents’ house, and I always thought it was so cool to see a TV station building in person.
Now, some background and history. Greenville, Mississippi, isn’t the most populated place in the world. In fact, as ranked by Nielsen – which determines the market numbers of all of the local television designated market areas (DMAs) across the country – Greenwood-Greenville is pretty darn close to the bottom. It’s currently number 194 out of 210. (For comparison, NYC and LA are 1 and 2, respectively. Memphis is 51, and Jackson, MS, is 95. All others in MS are below 130.) These numbers fluctuate every year, but never by much; Greenville is consistently toward the end of the line.
A lot of these small-market stations either have low-output and/or low-quality local news operations, or maybe no local news operations at all. Greenville isn’t that bad; in fact, it’s had news ever since 1959, back when the Delta was rocking and rolling. That year saw the launch of WABG, Channel 6, in Greenwood. Previously, few signals reached the region. (One of them, of course, was WMCT, all the way up in Memphis.)
WABG was the first station to operate between Memphis and Jackson, and, naturally, was very popular among area residents. There was backlash when the station’s facilities moved from Greenwood to downtown Greenville, but it still kept on providing services and programming to the region, without competition I might add. Until 1980, that is, when WXVT hit the airwaves.
(1/4)
WXVT-TV (abandoned) // 3015 E Reed Road, Greenville, MS 38703
(c) 2020 Retail Retell
These places are public so these photos are too, but just as I tell where they came from, I'd appreciate if you'd say who :)