Website: https://newschannel5.com/
NewsChannel 5 is the broadcast brand of WTVF, a CBS-affiliated television station serving the Nashville, Tennessee market. The station provides local news, weather, traffic, sports, and lifestyle content distributed across broadcast television, streaming, and social media platforms. Its website serves as the digital home for the station’s news coverage and station information. According to the site, NewsChannel 5 operates under the tagline “Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way,” a phrase long associated with the Scripps broadcasting group.
Services
As a local television station, NewsChannel 5 produces and distributes a range of news and information programming for Middle Tennessee audiences. Content categories featured across its platforms include:
- Local and breaking news coverage
- Weather forecasting and severe-weather alerts
- Traffic reporting
- Sports coverage
- Lifestyle and community content
The station delivers this programming through its over-the-air broadcast signal as well as through its website and connected digital and social channels, giving viewers multiple ways to access NewsChannel 5 reporting.
About
WTVF operates as a CBS network affiliate and is owned by Scripps Media, Inc., as indicated in the website’s footer copyright notice. The station identifies its leadership on its site, listing a General Manager (Lyn Plantinga), a News Director (Sandy Boonstra), and a Station Manager (Richard Eller). At the time the site was reviewed, a notice indicated that DirecTV customers had lost access to NewsChannel 5 and CBS, reflecting an ongoing carriage matter between the station and that provider. The station’s brand and tagline tie it to the long-running Scripps tradition in broadcast journalism.
Location & Contact
NewsChannel 5 is based in Nashville, Tennessee. Contact details published on the station’s site include:
- Mailing address: NewsChannel 5, 474 James Robertson Pkwy, Nashville, TN 37219
- Phone: 615-244-5000
- Newsroom email: [email protected]
A contact page is available on the station’s website for additional inquiries.
Additional Information
NewsChannel 5 functions as a full-service local news operation for the Nashville designated market area, combining traditional television broadcasting with digital and streaming distribution. As a Scripps-owned, CBS-affiliated station, it operates within a national network and ownership structure while maintaining locally focused coverage of news, weather, traffic, and sports across Middle Tennessee. The station’s website acts as a central hub for its journalism, hosting article-based news coverage alongside weather, traffic, sports, and lifestyle reporting, and pointing visitors to the station’s social media channels and streaming options. Its published leadership team includes General Manager Lyn Plantinga, News Director Sandy Boonstra, and Station Manager Richard Eller, reflecting a conventional local-station management structure. The station’s mailing address on James Robertson Parkway places it in downtown Nashville. Programming schedules and additional corporate details beyond those listed above are not consolidated on the pages reviewed, and the DirecTV carriage notice present at the time reflects a situation that may change.
Profile compiled from the company’s official website (newschannel5.com).