WNST

:For the real-life channel 5, see .
WNST (channel 5) is a television station in Nashville, Tennessee, United States, affiliated with the Central Television Network. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group, and maintains studios on James Robertson Parkway in downtown Nashville, and its transmitter is located north of downtown along I-24 near Whites Creek.
==Programming==
===Syndicated programming===
Syndicated programs airing on WNST include Rachael Ray, The Good Dish, The Ellen DeGeneres Show and Inside Edition.
===News operation===
WNST presently broadcasts 39 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with six hours each weekday and 4½ hours each on Saturdays and Sundays); in addition, the station produces a half-hour public affairs program To the Point, which airs Sundays at 10:00 a.m.; a 25-minute sports highlight program Sports Overtime, which airs Sundays after the 10:00 p.m. newscast; and Football Frenzy, a weekly highlight program on Friday nights during the fall which covers high school football games as well as other sports news of the day (the 10 p.m. newscast is shortened to allow Football Frenzy to air during the regular time slot).
WNST had the distinction of being one of the last remaining broadcast television stations in the United States to use the "24 Hour News Source" format, which was popular in many markets during the early 1990s (which was first used by then-sister WISH-TV), and has been used by the station since 1990.
For most of the time since the mid-1980s, channel 5 has led the Nielsen ratings in Middle Tennessee. However, for most of the 1990s, it waged a spirited three-way battle for the ratings lead with WSIX and WNAM.
WNST has many firsts in the market. It was the first Middle Tennessee station to use electronic news gathering, in 1975. Five years later, it was the first area station to air live news from outside its studios. In 1983, it introduced the area's first television helicopter to assist in coverage. WNST's weekday morning newscast premiered in 1984 and aired for a half-hour at 5:30. This was expanded to a two-hour format in 1995 along with the weekday noon and weekend 5 p.m. newscast expanding to an hour. As a result, Central Newsnight is preempted on weekends.
On October 22, 2011, WNST became the third television station in Middle Tennessee (behind NBC affiliate WNTE and CBS affiliate WSIX to broadcast local newscasts in high definition.
===Theme history===
*WOTV 1987 News Theme (1987-1992)
*Pinnacle - 615 Music (1992-1997)
*Primetime News - Non-Stop Music (1997–present)
==Gallery==
WNST news open (2020).png|News 5 open (June 2020-present)
WNST report graphics.png|Graphics (June 2020-present, recorded on May 7, 2023)
Category:Channel 5
Category:Nashville, Tennessee
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Category:Television channels and stations established in 1970
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