West TN PBS

West TN PBS, WLJT-TV channel 11, is the PBS member station for western and northwestern Tennessee. Licensed to Lexington, Tennessee, and owned by the West Tennessee Public Television Council, a community nonprofit, it has been the only public television station for all of West Tennessee since it signed on February 13, 1968. The station transmits from a site on US 412 between Jackson and Lexington, carries PBS, PBS Kids and Create on its three channels, streams on the free PBS App and offers Passport.

Built as a state-owned educational station that mostly rebroadcast Memphis station WKNO, WLJT began local programming in 1981 from studios on the University of Tennessee at Martin campus and was spun out to community ownership in 1984. In 2023 it acquired the Jackson Media Center on Campbell Street in midtown Jackson, which now houses its offices and studio, and it keeps a second location in Martin. The call letters stand for Lexington, Jackson, Tennessee.

The station describes itself as the most local television station in West Tennessee and provides hundreds of educational and community outreach activities a year across 21 counties. Its original programs include Tennessee is Talking, Tennessee Writes, Channel 11 Checkup, All About Home History, Retro 11, Spotlight 11 and In The Community. A small staff covers production and operations, digital content, engineering, business operations and donor services, supported by community volunteer hosts. Openings are posted on the station's employment page with applications by email, and it offers internships for college students in marketing, social media, video production, graphic design and digital media.