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4 unusual facts about WLEX-TV


WLEX-TV

It was co-owned with WLEX radio (1300 AM, now WLXG) and carried programming from all four networks (NBC, ABC, CBS, and DuMont).

In Tennessee, Lexington television stations WLEX and WKYT are carried in Jellico.

Its transmitter is located in Southern Lexington near Hamburg Pavilion on WTVQ-DT's tower.

In the fall of 2013, the station's 6 p.m. newscast began to be simulcasted on a half-hour delay on Louisville's Ion Television station, WBNA (Channel 21); that station also airs the midday newscast of fellow NBC affiliate WAVE in Louisville.


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W1XAY

It was also branded as "WLEX" from its sister radio station, in Lexington, Massachusetts, USA (near Boston).


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